Concept

Classical mechanics

Overview

sub-field of mechanics, which is concerned with the set of physical laws describing the motion of bodies under the action of a system of forces

Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).

Philosophers who discussed Classical mechanics

• Nicolas Malebranche
• Aristotle
• Ludwig Boltzmann
• Paul Feyerabend
• David Hume
• Ibn Malka al-Baghdadi

Related ideas

• Aristotelian physics
• Force
• Avicenna
• Ancient philosophy
• General relativity
• Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
• Isaac Newton
• Integrated circuit
• Physical object
• Jean Buridan
• Kepler's laws of planetary motion
• Light
• Mathematics
• Gas
• Mass
• Theoretical physics
• Momentum
• Velocity
• Motion
• Mathematical model
• Quantum
• Astronomia nova
• Planet
• Physics

Opposing perspectives

• Condemnations of 1210–1277
• Commensurability (philosophy of science)

Place in the tradition

Part of British philosophy.

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