Mechanics Quiz: questions and answers
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1. What is the mechanics?
The area of science concerned with the behavior of physical bodies when subjected to forces or displacements
2. Where does the scientific discipline have its origins?
Ancient Greece
3. Who laid the foundations of what is now known as classical mechanics?
All are correct
4. Which law originated the classical mechanics?
Newton's law of motion
5. What was the main theory of mechanics in antiquity?
Aristotelian mechanics
6. Who developed the theory of impetus?
Jean Buridan
7. Who were two central figures for mechanics in the early modern age?
Galileo Galilei and Isaac Newton
8. In which century did General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics develop?
20th century
9. Which one of these subjects is studied in the Classical fields of mechanics?
Analytical mechanics
10. Which one of these subjects is studied in the Quantum fields of mechanics?
Condensed matter physics