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The basic questions of mechanics are:
1. What causes the motion of objects?
2. How can the motion of objects be described in mathematical terms?
The second question will be answered below, though in a somewhat preliminary fashion. The third chapter will provide an answer to the first question. Examples and more sophisticated methods for the discussion of the motion of mechanical objects follow in the subsequent chapters.
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Dreizler, R.M., Lüdde, C.S. (2010). Kinematics. In: Theoretical Mechanics. Graduate Texts in Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11138-9_2
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