Timeline for Why is a dynamical system not a dynamic system?
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| Jul 29, 2020 at 17:46 | comment | added | KConrad | You mean phantastomatical... :) | |
| Jul 29, 2020 at 16:05 | comment | added | Michael Engelhardt | @KConrad - Indeed, I don't see a clear distinction between "kinematical" and "kinematic". I probably just used "kinematical" here for symmetry with "dynamical". I didn't think much about it. "Kinematic description" sounds fine. And "magnetical" is hilarious, I have to start using that as a joke. You illustrate perfectly how language isn't something one can press into simple rules. It's phantastomatic. | |
| Jul 29, 2020 at 15:19 | comment | added | KConrad | Why are you using "kinematical" instead of "kinematic"? I don't think that in the term "kinematic description", the label "kinematic" is about the description itself having an attribute from within kinematics. If a physical process were explained using thermodynamics, I think the term "thermodynamic explanation" would sound like a reasonable label. At the same time, the terms "electric/electrical" have a usage distinction but there is no term "magnetical" to go along with "magnetic". | |
| Jul 29, 2020 at 13:36 | history | edited | Michael Engelhardt | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
added one more observation where the contrast is clear
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| Jul 29, 2020 at 13:31 | history | answered | Michael Engelhardt | CC BY-SA 4.0 |