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Me*chan`i*co-chem"ic*al (?), a.
Pertaining to, connected with, or dependent upon, both mechanics
and chemistry; -- said especially of those sciences which treat of
such phenomena as seem to depend on the laws both of mechanics and
chemistry, as electricity and magnetism.

Me*chan"ics (?), n. [Cf. F.
mécanique.] That science, or branch of applied
mathematics, which treats of the action of forces on
bodies.

&fist; That part of mechanics which considers the action of
forces in producing rest or equilibrium is called statics;
that which relates to such action in producing motion is called
dynamics. The term mechanics includes the action of
forces on all bodies, whether solid, liquid, or gaseous. It is
sometimes, however, and formerly was often, used distinctively of
solid bodies only: The mechanics of liquid bodies is
called also hydrostatics, or hydrodynamics, according
as the laws of rest or of motion are considered.


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