Statics

Branch of mechanics concerned with balance of forces in nonmoving systems

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 an acceleration, but rather is in equilibrium with its environment. If F {\displaystyle {\textbf {F}}} is the total of the forces acting on the system, m {\displaystyle m} is the mass of the system and a {\displaystyle {\textbf {a}}} is the acceleration of the system, Newton's second law states that F = m a {\displaystyle {\textbf {F}}=m{\textbf {a}}\,} (the bold font indicates a vector quantity, i.e. one with both magnitude and direction).

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