Newtonian mechanics also called Newtonian mechanics or classical mechanics. Its promoter, the British Isaac Newton, laid the foundations for modern studies of classical mechanics until the radical rethinking of the theory of relativity. We begin by defining mechanics as the science that studies the action of forces on bodies and the behavior of material systems immersed in the fields of such forces.
The so-called classical or Newtonian mechanics aims, based on mathematical expressions and reasoning in accordance with the physical postulates of the theory, to explain and predict the behavior of bodies subjected to interactions with other bodies, excluding electrical or magnetic phenomena, as well as considerations on atomic structure or notions related to quantum theory. In the study of classical mechanics, it is sought to know not only the state of the system considered, but also that of the physical environment that surrounds it.
Some interpretations emerged in the twentieth century that gave rise to the subdivision of classical or Newtonian mechanics, which restrict its postulates and conclusions to the usual terrestrial systems in non-extreme conditions, another quantum one that incorporates the formalism of quantum adapted to new conceptions of the atomic physics and nuclear and third relativistic, which corresponds to the generalization of Newtonian mechanics for conditions of extremely high energies and speeds approaching that of light.. mechanical has a classical division into several subordinate disciplines, such as: The statics: that is in charge of the study of the physical systems in balance; the kinematics: which studies the analysis of the movements observed in the particles and systems, regardless of the cause that provokes it and finally the dynamics that investigates the origin of the movements and the variations of state in the material systems.
