# Classical Mechanics

- By: Jeremy Tatum
- Publisher: University of Victoria
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- Licence: [CC BY-NC 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/)
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Classical mechanics is the study of the motion of bodies (including the special case in which bodies remain at rest) in accordance with the general principles first enunciated by Sir Isaac Newton in his Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (1687), commonly known as the Principia.