The Physics Department - Mechanics, Kinematics
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Kinematics is the study of how things move. Here, we are interested in the motion of normal objects in our world. A normal object is visible, has edges, and has a location that can be expressed with (x, y, z) coordinates. We will not be discussing the motion of atomic particles or of light.
We will create a vocabulary and a group of mathematical methods that will describe this ordinary motion. It is important to understand that we will be only developing a language used for describing motion here. We will not be concerned with what is causing the objects to change their motion, or more correctly, their momentums. In other words, we are not concerned with the action of forces within this topic.