statics
- noun
- /ˈstætɪks/
- Specialized
- Engineering mechanics: Statics and dynamics.
- statics and dynamics
- comparative statics
- nonlinear statics
Since we're learning about statics, how does this work statically?
- Since we're learning about statics, how does this work statically?
- The laws of statics emerge from quantum physics.
Examples
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The art of engineering is first and foremost about statics that is so things remain standing in spite of the various forces that impact the buildings.
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The principles of statics allow engineers to calculate how different materials support weight without collapsing.
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To understand the statics and the dynamics of societies and history, one must give values their due and full force.
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Well, if each of these is at static equilibrium, how do you express that?
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Since we're learning about statics, how does this work statically?
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Now these two cables have to be pulling in the same magnitude of force to keep this object in static equilibrium.
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Before discussing comparative statics, we examine the key assumptions in our model.
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Assembling a group of wires to distribute the stress equally is a problem in materials science as well as statics.
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In this sense, structure includes the system of statics indicated by the more strictly tectonic meaning of the word, and it also encompasses the building's ornament.
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Industrial Organization economists understand the comparative statics of market equilibrium and how profits and losses are the signals that attract or repel resources into or out of markets.
Academic text (1999)
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word statics comes from a Greek root stat- meaning 'to stand'. In engineering, statics studies how forces keep objects standing still or in balance, so the name means 'the study of standing'.