Examining the behavior of physical bodies in motion and under the influence of forces.
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Engineering teaches systems thinking. Apply it to your entertainment calendar. Schedule forces (study), moments (breaks), and resultant fun. Your mind will stay in equilibrium.
Professor Theo Verreyne, co-author of the notoriously dense Engineering Mechanics 2nd Edition (the one with the crimson cover that haunts first-year mechanical engineers), had a problem. His lifestyle had become a rigid free-body diagram: wake, coffee, solve for reaction forces, lecture, home, sleep. No resultant force in the direction of joy.
: The study of motion without considering the forces that cause it.