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In physics, by mechanical motion we mean the change in time of the position of a body with respect to another body, chosen as a reference. Generally speaking, the motion of a body does not reduce to its mechanical motion, since the body can be simultaneously animated by several types of motion (mechanical, chemical, biological, etc.) depending on its complexity. For the sake of simplicity we shall, nevertheless, call mechanical motion just motion.
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Chaichian, M., Merches, I., Tureanu, A. (2012). Foundations of Newtonian Mechanics. In: Mechanics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-17234-2_1
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