• timeline describes the major developments, both experimental and theoretical understanding of fluid mechanics and continuum mechanics. This timeline includes...
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  • (1900–present) Timeline of electromagnetism and classical optics (424 BCE–1999 CE) Timeline of fluid and continuum mechanics (300 BCE–present) Timeline of thermodynamics...
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  • For history of fluid mechanics, see timeline of fluid and continuum mechanics. 28,000–12,000 BP – Upper Paleolithic: earliest evidence of ceramic objects...
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    Pioneers of fluid mechanics The history of fluid mechanics is a fundamental strand of the history of physics and engineering. The study of the movement of fluids...
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  • Solid mechanics (also known as mechanics of solids) is the branch of continuum mechanics that studies the behavior of solid materials, especially their...
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  • Composed of two main categories, Applied Mechanics can be split into classical mechanics; the study of the mechanics of macroscopic solids, and fluid mechanics;...
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    the modern continuum mechanics, particularly in the areas of elasticity, plasticity, fluid dynamics, electrodynamics, and thermodynamics of deformable...
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    In continuum mechanics and thermodynamics, a control volume (CV) is a mathematical abstraction employed in the process of creating mathematical models...
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    Classical physics (category History of physics)
    incorporates elements of quantum mechanics and relativity. However, relativity is based on classical field theory rather than quantum field theory and is often categorized...
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    the framework of continuum mechanics: Streamlines are a family of curves whose tangent vectors constitute the velocity vector field of the flow. These...
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  • The following is a timeline of the history of classical mechanics: 4th century BC – Aristotle invents the system of Aristotelian physics, which is later...
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  • Classical field theory (category Lagrangian mechanics)
    field equations, without considering effects of quantization; theories that incorporate quantum mechanics are called quantum field theories. In most contexts...
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    fluid dynamics and deformable bodies, a momentum density can be defined as momentum per volume (a volume-specific quantity). A continuum version of the...
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    turbulence, and the existence and uniqueness of solutions to the Navier-Stokes equations. History of aviation Timeline of fluid and continuum mechanics Anderson...
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    Hamiltonian mechanics is a reformulation of Lagrangian mechanics that emerged in 1833. Introduced by Sir William Rowan Hamilton, Hamiltonian mechanics replaces...
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    scientist working in the fields of continuum mechanics and thermodynamics. axiomatic and kinetic foundations of continuum thermodynamics, mixture theory...
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  • physics, mechanics is the study of objects, their interaction, and motion; classical mechanics is mechanics limited to non-relativistic and non-quantum...
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  • (2014). Fluid Mechanics of Cricket Ball Swing. 19th Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference. Vol. 1. Melbourne: Australasian Fluid Mechanics Society....
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    motion and the forces that affect it); mechanics may also be divided into solid mechanics and fluid mechanics (known together as continuum mechanics), the...
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    of application: Celestial mechanics, relating to stars, planets and other celestial bodies Continuum mechanics, for materials modelled as a continuum...
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    Pressure (redirect from Fluids and pressure)
    pressure – Term in fluid mechanics Timeline of temperature and pressure measurement technology Torricelli's law – Theorem in fluid mechanics Vacuum pump –...
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    important advances in continuum mechanics in the first half of the century, namely formulation of laws of elasticity for solids and discovery of Navier–Stokes...
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  • This is a list of notable textbooks on classical mechanics and quantum mechanics arranged according to level and surnames of the authors in alphabetical...
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  • forces acting on it. These laws, which provide the basis for Newtonian mechanics, can be paraphrased as follows: A body remains at rest, or in motion at...
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    Siméon Denis Poisson (category French fluid dynamicists)
    and magnetism, thermodynamics, elasticity, and fluid mechanics. Moreover, he predicted the Arago spot in his attempt to disprove the wave theory of Augustin-Jean...
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    Friction (redirect from Fluid friction)
    motion of solid surfaces, fluid layers, and material elements sliding against each other. Types of friction include dry, fluid, lubricated, skin, and internal...
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  • Liouville's theorem (Hamiltonian) (category Hamiltonian mechanics)
    classical statistical and Hamiltonian mechanics. It asserts that the phase-space distribution function is constant along the trajectories of the system—that...
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  • Statics (redirect from Point of application)
    Statics is the branch of classical mechanics that is concerned with the analysis of force and torque acting on a physical system that does not experience...
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    Force (redirect from Unit of force)
    change shape, the theories of continuum mechanics describe the way forces affect the material. For example, in extended fluids, differences in pressure...
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    Joseph-Louis Lagrange (category Lagrangian mechanics)
    written in Berlin and first published in 1788, offered the most comprehensive treatment of classical mechanics since Isaac Newton and formed a basis for...
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