Timeline for What is the difference between "kinematics" and "dynamics"?
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| S Apr 27, 2014 at 10:04 | history | suggested | CommunityBot | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
no need to mention in brackets
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| Dec 10, 2010 at 1:55 | vote | accept | nibot | ||
| Nov 20, 2010 at 21:17 | comment | added | Noldorin | @Matt: That's not a standard definition however. | |
| Nov 20, 2010 at 2:39 | comment | added | Matt Reece | To try to make this a little sharper, I would say "kinematics" is about things that are determined by conservation laws: kinematics tells you that momentum and energy have to balance, for instance. "Dynamics" is any detail that depends on the interactions and not just on conserved quantities, and would tell you for instance the detailed cross-section of a scattering process as a function of the kinematically possible configurations. | |
| Nov 20, 2010 at 1:27 | history | answered | Chad Orzel | CC BY-SA 2.5 |