Quotes About Mechanics

It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played.

Within every desire is the mechanics of its fulfillment.

Inherent in every intention and desire are the mechanics for its fulfillment.

It's just that fun atmosphere, working on the car, being with the guys. This is exactly what I needed.

A good driver can make up for bad equipment way more than a good car could make up for a bad driver.

From seven in the morning until half past one the next morning -- that's quite a record time for a visitor to stay at a museum, [Henry Ford] continued. It proves that you may be even more interested in mechanics than I am. And you almost have to be a fanatic to compete with me. That's certainly something! he exclaimed, grinning broad approval of our common bond.

Women have faith in the mechanics of adjustment. A woman knows how to want something. She'll take chances to secure the future.

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The standards should reflect the psychological conceptual models, not the physical mechanics.

Thus energy may be regarded as the universal currency of the sciences,

Energy can neither be created nor destroyed, and so the total amount of energy which is present before and after any physical transaction will not be changed. This principle is called 'the conservation of energy'.

Joule, that is the work done when one Newton acts through one metre.*

stress' in a solid is rather like the 'pressure' in a liquid or a gas. It is a measure of how hard the atoms and molecules which make up the material are being pushed together or pulled apart as a result of external forces.

it is quite possible to break a bow by 'shooting' it without an arrow.

Numerically, the stress in any direction at a given point in a material is simply the force or load which happens to be acting in that direction at the point, divided by the area on which the force acts.

The science of elasticity is about the interactions between forces and deflections.

The scientific kind of energy with which we are dealing is officially defined as 'capacity for doing work', and it has the dimensions of 'force-multiplied-by-distance'.

slope of the stress-strain diagram measures how readily each material strains elastically under a given stress.

pressure acts in all three directions within a fluid while the stress in a solid is often a directional or one-dimensional affair.

The science of elasticity is about the interactions between forces and deflections in materials and structures.

Geometrical irregularities, such as holes and cracks and sharp corners, which had previously been ignored, may raise the local stress ? often only over a very small area ? very dramatically indeed.

It is necessary to avoid confusion between the strength of a structure and the strength of a material.

A human is not a being; he is a becoming. He is an ongoing process – a possibility. For this possibility to be made use of, there is a whole system of understanding the mechanics of how this life functions and what we can do with it, which we refer to as yoga.

Curiously, though, we only have to look at one of the two slits for the outcome of the whole experiment to be affected, as if the electrons passing through the other slit also knew what we were doing. This is an example of quantum "non-locality," which means that what happens in one location seems to affect events in another location instantly. Non-locality is a key feature of the central mystery of quantum mechanics, and a vital ingredient in quantum computers.