Die Grundstruktur der klassischen Partikelmechanik und ihre Spezialfsierungen

Abstract

Abstract Classical particle mechanics is given an axiomatic form which - we think - constitutes an essential progress with respect to extisting axiomatizations. We clarify the status of it's basic concepts (first of all of the concept of force), we reconstruct the factual (implicit) form of it's basic law, and we exemplify the general method of obtaining more special mechanical laws from this basic law by means of concrete examples. By this the "overall"-structure of classical particle mechanics as that of an "open" theory can be clearly recognized. The result is of methodological, philosophical and didactical relevance