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The word mechanical can mean one of several things:


A "mechanical" is also the term used in the music industry to indicate the payment made from a licensee to the owner of a copyright for the right to mechanically reproduce a song. e.g. Reproduce a song on a Compact Disc that is offered for sale to the public. "Mechanical" is the short term for a mechanical license. A Device can be taken to mean: an electrical device designed to carry power, but not use it. ... A principle is something, usually a rule or norm, that is part of the basis for something else. ... Mechanism is the following: In general, a mechanism is part of a chain of causes leading to some object or process. ... Wind turbines A machine is any mechanical or organic device that transmits or modifies energy to perform or assist in the performance of tasks. ... Classical mechanics is a model of the physics of forces acting upon bodies. ... In physics, mechanical energy is one of several forms of energy. ... Work (abbreviated W) is the energy transferred by a force to a moving object. ... A Mechanical is any one of six characters in A Midsummer Nights Dream who perform the play within the play, Pyramus and Thisbe. ... William Shakespeare—born April 1564; baptised April 26, 1564; died April 23, 1616 (O.S.), May 3, 1616 (N.S.)—has a reputation as the greatest of all writers in English. ... A Midsummer Nights Dream is a romantic comedy by William Shakespeare written in the mid-1590s. ...


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Mechanics was studied by a number of ancient Greek scientists, most notably Aristotle, whose ideas dominated the subject until the late Middle Ages, and Archimedes, who made several contributions and whose approach was quite modern compared to other ancient scientists.
In 1905, Albert Einstein showed that Newton’s mechanics was an approximation, valid for cases involving speeds much less than the speed of light; for very great speeds the relativistic mechanics of his theory of relativity was required.
In the quantum mechanics developed during the 1920s as part of the quantum theory, the motions of very tiny particles, such as the electrons in an atom, were explained using the fact that both matter and energy have a dual nature—sometimes behaving like particles and other times behaving like waves.
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