Statics
Statics is the branch of classical mechanics that is concerned with the analysis of force and torque acting on a physical system that does not experience an acceleration, but rather is in equilibrium with its environment. If F {\displaystyle {\textbf {F}}} is the total of the forces acting on the system, m {\displaystyle m} is the mass of the system and a {\displaystyle {\textbf {a}}} is the acceleration of the system, Newton's second law states that F = m a {\displaystyle {\textbf {F}}=m{\textbf {a}}\,} (the bold font indicates a vector quantity, i.e.