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Space and time are the arena in which all physical events take place. An object’s position in space will generally change with time; this obvious phenomenon, motion, is used as our first clue for deducing the laws of physics. The study of motion is traditionally called kinematics.
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Wellner, M. (1991). Motion. In: Elements of Physics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3860-8_2
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