Classical mechanics/Definition

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A definition or brief description of Classical mechanics.

The science of mechanics, which is concerned with the set of physical laws governing and mathematically describing the motions of bodies and aggregates of bodies geometrically distributed within a certain boundary under the action of a system of forces.