[In form a pl. of KINETIC: see -IC 2.] The branch of dynamics that investigates the relations between the motions of bodies and the forces acting upon them; opposed to Statics, which treats of bodies in equilibrium.
1864. in Webster.
1866. Lond. Rev., 2 June, 615/2. Between whiles he has his kinetics to get up for the next morning.
1882. Minchin, Unipl. Kinemat., 59. The particular case in which the resultant acceleration of a moving point is always directed towards a fixed point or centre is deserving of special notice on account of the part which it plays in kinetics.
