Classical mechanics

Classical mechanics - sub-field of mechanics, which is concerned with the set of physical laws describing the motion of bodies under the action of a system of forces. Article "Classical mechanics" in English Wikipedia has 64.4 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 24 references and 19 sections. The article also contains quality flaw template, which reduce quality score.

This article has the best quality in Esperanto Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Since the creation of article "Classical mechanics", its content was written by 586 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 2678 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (8427^th place).

The article is cited 1681 times in English Wikipedia and cited 12937 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1054 in December 2001
• Global: #335 in November 2010

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #18230 in June 2010
• Global: #10298 in February 2012

There are 54 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from August 1, 2024 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Esperanto (eo) Klasika mekaniko		73.1127
2	English (en) Classical mechanics		64.417
3	Hebrew (he) מכניקה קלאסית		56.6653
4	Spanish (es) Mecánica clásica		55.8844
5	Basque (eu) Mekanika klasiko		49.1547
6	Catalan (ca) Mecànica clàssica		46.2159
7	Chinese (zh) 经典力学		45.3215
8	Greek (el) Κλασική μηχανική		44.6249
9	Malay (ms) Mekanik klasik		44.0599
10	Tamil (ta) மரபார்ந்த விசையியல்		38.8183

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Classical mechanics" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Classical mechanics		4 928 643
2	Spanish (es) Mecánica clásica		2 432 917
3	Portuguese (pt) Mecânica clássica		1 188 916
4	Russian (ru) Классическая механика		924 514
5	French (fr) Mécanique newtonienne		566 550
6	German (de) Klassische Mechanik		482 332
7	Arabic (ar) ميكانيكا تقليدية		468 293
8	Italian (it) Meccanica classica		421 132
9	Polish (pl) Mechanika klasyczna		420 299
10	Chinese (zh) 经典力学		393 232

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Classical mechanics" in July 2024

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Classical mechanics		16 517
2	Spanish (es) Mecánica clásica		3 979
3	Russian (ru) Классическая механика		2 110
4	Chinese (zh) 经典力学		1 537
5	Portuguese (pt) Mecânica clássica		1 198
6	French (fr) Mécanique newtonienne		1 112
7	Japanese (ja) 古典力学		1 084
8	German (de) Klassische Mechanik		1 049
9	Italian (it) Meccanica classica		976
10	Korean (ko) 고전역학		967

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Classical mechanics" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Classical mechanics		586
2	German (de) Klassische Mechanik		152
3	Spanish (es) Mecánica clásica		115
4	Italian (it) Meccanica classica		113
5	Hebrew (he) מכניקה קלאסית		103
6	Russian (ru) Классическая механика		101
7	French (fr) Mécanique newtonienne		100
8	Dutch (nl) Klassieke mechanica		90
9	Portuguese (pt) Mecânica clássica		87
10	Hungarian (hu) Klasszikus mechanika		72

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Classical mechanics" with the highest AI in July 2024

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Esperanto (eo) Klasika mekaniko		2
2	Spanish (es) Mecánica clásica		2
3	Galician (gl) Mecánica clásica		1
4	Latin (la) Mechanica Newtoniana		1
5	Polish (pl) Mechanika klasyczna		1
6	Chinese (zh) 经典力学		1
7	Arabic (ar) ميكانيكا تقليدية		0
8	Azerbaijani (az) Klassik mexanika		0
9	Belarusian (be) Класічная механіка		0
10	Bulgarian (bg) Класическа механика		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Classical mechanics" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Classical mechanics		1 681
2	Portuguese (pt) Mecânica clássica		1 199
3	Arabic (ar) ميكانيكا تقليدية		771
4	Chinese (zh) 经典力学		752
5	Polish (pl) Mechanika klasyczna		504
6	French (fr) Mécanique newtonienne		467
7	Russian (ru) Классическая механика		438
8	Persian (fa) مکانیک کلاسیک		401
9	Korean (ko) 고전역학		365
10	Italian (it) Meccanica classica		363

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic ميكانيكا تقليدية
az	Azerbaijani Klassik mexanika
be	Belarusian Класічная механіка
bg	Bulgarian Класическа механика
ca	Catalan Mecànica clàssica
cs	Czech Klasická mechanika
da	Danish Klassisk mekanik
de	German Klassische Mechanik
el	Greek Κλασική μηχανική
en	English Classical mechanics
eo	Esperanto Klasika mekaniko
es	Spanish Mecánica clásica
et	Estonian Klassikaline mehaanika
eu	Basque Mekanika klasiko
fa	Persian مکانیک کلاسیک
fi	Finnish Klassinen mekaniikka
fr	French Mécanique newtonienne
gl	Galician Mecánica clásica
he	Hebrew מכניקה קלאסית
hi	Hindi चिरसम्मत यांत्रिकी
hr	Croatian Klasična mehanika
hu	Hungarian Klasszikus mechanika
hy	Armenian Դասական մեխանիկա
id	Indonesian Mekanika klasik
it	Italian Meccanica classica
ja	Japanese 古典力学
ka	Georgian კლასიკური მექანიკა
kk	Kazakh Классикалық механика
ko	Korean 고전역학
la	Latin Mechanica Newtoniana
lt	Lithuanian Klasikinė mechanika
ms	Malay Mekanik klasik
nl	Dutch Klassieke mechanica
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Klassisk mekanikk
no	Norwegian Klassisk mekanikk
pl	Polish Mechanika klasyczna
pt	Portuguese Mecânica clássica
ro	Romanian Mecanică clasică
ru	Russian Классическая механика
sh	Serbo-Croatian Klasična mehanika
simple	Simple English Classical mechanics
sk	Slovak Klasická mechanika
sl	Slovenian Klasična mehanika
sr	Serbian Класична механика
sv	Swedish Klassisk mekanik
ta	Tamil மரபார்ந்த விசையியல்
th	Thai กลศาสตร์ดั้งเดิม
tr	Turkish Klasik mekanik
uk	Ukrainian Класична механіка
ur	Urdu کلاسیکی میکانیات
uz	Uzbek Klassik mexanika
vi	Vietnamese Cơ học cổ điển
zh	Chinese 经典力学
zhminnan	Min Nan Kó͘-tián le̍k-ha̍k

Best Rank

English: #18230 06.2010

Global: #10298 02.2012

Best Rank

English: #1054 12.2001

Global: #335 11.2010

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