Abstract
Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the classical and relativistic mechanics. Mechanics is part of field theory and generally concerned with the statics and dynamics of any material body or medium. The theory of relativity, as the name purports, deems the concept of absolute motion as physically un-meaningful. Its special version appeared immediately as the best candidate for conciliating electromagnetism to gravitation and, in particular, for the unification of electromagnetic phenomena. Classical mechanics was developed into two complementary views, vectorial and analytical. The first isolates the particles, modeled as they were individual, and makes direct use of Newton's second law of motion. Accordingly, one should be able to separate each resultant particle force, and proceed with solving the associated differential equations.
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