Ooh cool – it leads RIGHT into rigid body physics and kinematics, which sort of left the world of theoretical mathematics AND physics behind to follow its own course that led to:
ENGINEERING.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screw_theory
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There was BASICALLY a 3-way split around this time. One course follows logic/pure mathematics, one course physics (and statistical analysis), one course engineering.
THAT’S why there’s SO MANY different terms for the same things. Lots of overlap — and conflict.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinematics is fascinating.
” is a branch of classical mechanics that describes the motion of points, bodies (objects), and systems of bodies (groups of objects) without considering the forces that cause them to move”
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Linkages.
Part of kinematics.
Kinematics isn’t math, not really.
Kinematics isn’t physics, not really.
It’s kind of its own thing, part of engineering.
Software: http://blog.rectorsquid.com/linkage-mechanism-designer-and-simulator/
I used a sample linkage mechanism.
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