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  2. Archimedes' principle - Wikipedia

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    (This formula is used for example in describing the measuring principle of a dasymeter and of hydrostatic weighing.) Example: If you drop wood into water, buoyancy will keep it afloat. Example: A helium balloon in a moving car. When increasing speed or driving in a curve, the air moves in the opposite direction to the car's acceleration.

  3. Mechanical equilibrium - Wikipedia

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    A stationary object (or set of objects) is in "static equilibrium," which is a special case of mechanical equilibrium. A paperweight on a desk is an example of static equilibrium. Other examples include a rock balance sculpture, or a stack of blocks in the game of Jenga, so long as the sculpture or stack of blocks is not in the state of collapsing.

  4. Everyday resistance - Wikipedia

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    Everyday resistance (also, by James C. Scott, called infrapolitics) is a dispersed, quiet, seemingly invisible and disguised form of resistance [1] seemingly aiming at redistribution of control over property. [2] The acts of everyday resistance are considered to be relatively safe and they require either little or no formal coordination. [2]

  5. Fluid mechanics - Wikipedia

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    Fluid mechanics is the branch of physics concerned with the mechanics of fluids (liquids, gases, and plasmas) and the forces on them. [1]: 3 It has applications in a wide range of disciplines, including mechanical, aerospace, civil, chemical, and biomedical engineering, as well as geophysics, oceanography, meteorology, astrophysics, and biology.

  6. D'Alembert's principle - Wikipedia

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    D'Alembert's principle generalizes the principle of virtual work from static to dynamical systems by introducing forces of inertia which, when added to the applied forces in a system, result in dynamic equilibrium. [1] [2] D'Alembert's principle can be applied in cases of kinematic constraints that depend on velocities.

  7. Classical mechanics - Wikipedia

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    As an example, assume that friction is the only force acting on the particle, and that it may be modeled as a function of the velocity of the particle, for example: =, where λ is a positive constant, the negative sign states that the force is opposite the sense of the velocity. Then the equation of motion is

  8. Dynamics - Wikipedia

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    DTA Dynamic, a French ultralight trike wing design; Dynamic microphone, a type of microphone; Force dynamics, a semantic concept about how entities interact with reference to force; Ice-sheet dynamics, the motion within large bodies of ice; Neural oscillation in neurodynamics, a rhythmic pattern in the brain; Sol Dynamic, a Brazilian paraglider ...

  9. Linkage (mechanical) - Wikipedia

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    An example of a simple open chain is a serial robot manipulator. These robotic systems are constructed from a series of links connected by six one degree-of-freedom revolute or prismatic joints, so the system has six degrees of freedom. An example of a simple closed chain is the RSSR (revolute-spherical-spherical-revolute) spatial four-bar linkage.