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Newtonian mechanics discusses the movement of classical bodies under the influence of forces by applying Newton’s three laws. For more general concepts, use [classical-mechanics]. For Newton’s description of gravity, use [newtonian-gravity].

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Newton's 3rd Law and a bouncing ball

A lot of correct answers, maybe just one more sort of mathy one. As already mentioned, the force in question is not the force due to gravity. You could have the ball bounce off a room's wall (or a bas …
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Clarification on this equation defining Inertia tensor

From your question, you seem to think that the components of $\mathbf{r}$ are labelled by Greek letters, such that $\mathbf{r} = (r_{\alpha},r_{\beta},r_{\gamma})$, making $\gamma$ the third component …
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Model to understand tension varying in an hanging rope with mass

You replace your rope by a chain of $N$ rope segments (what your source calls the molecules, however that could be misleading, so stick with rope segments) with mass $m$. Each of them has the weight $ …
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How do we formally define "indeterminism" of physical expressions?

Just because it didn't pop up yet, I wanted to add something for completion. Some answers and comments claimed that classical chaos arises because there is no way of telling exactly what a particle's …
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