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A short history is also given. 1 Newton’s principles Continuing the results obtained by his predecessors, especially those of Galileo Galilei (who intuits the principle of inertia and the principle of the initial conditions), Sir Isaac Newton enounced, in his famous work “Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica” (the first fascicle appeared in London at 5th of July 1686), the three laws which form the basis of classical models of mechanics. Lex I. Corpus omne perseverare in statu suo quiscendi vel movendi uniformiter in directum, nisi quantenus illud a viribus impressis cogitur statum suum mutare (Any body preserves its state of rest or of uniform rectilinear motion if it is not constrained by induced forces to change its state) (after the last enunciation of Newton, in the third edition (1726) of his treatise).
18. Internal forces Fij = −Fji . Fij + Fji = 0 . 12 Conservative forces Upon a mechanical system (discrete or continuous) can act a field of forces, which may be conservative or non-conservative. 82) where U = U ( r ) = U ( x1 , x 2 , x 3 ) is the force function (potential function or potential). 82); the function is called quasi-potential, and the forces are quasi-conservative in this case. MECHANICAL SYSTEMS, CLASSICAL MODELS 40 A field of conservative forces is stationary, while a field of quasi-conservative forces is non-stationary.
80) where r is the position vector of the point of application (belonging to the mechanical system), while v is its velocity; in components, we have Fi = Fi ( x1 , x 2 , x 3 , v1 , v2 , v3 ,; t ) , i = 1, 2, 3 . 80') The force corresponds to the interaction of bodies and is emphasized in various manners; thus, we distinguish between contact actions and actions at distance. The action of a homogeneous sphere, which is in collision with another homogeneous sphere (case considered in Subsec. 6), is a contact action.