Statics

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Statics ( ancient Greek στατικός statikos "bringing to a standstill"; στατική [τέχνη] statiké téchne "the art of weighing") stands for:

In physics:
- Statics (mechanics) , field of mechanics and deals with forces in still systems
- Electrostatics , static electrical charges and electrical fields that do not change over time
- Magnetostatics , for magnetic fields that do not change over time
- Thermostatics , as a special case of thermodynamics , for static or quasi-static thermodynamic processes
- Fluid statics
  - Hydrostatics , static liquids
  - Aerostatics , stationary gases

In engineering:
- General:
  - Statics (mechanics)
  - Short form for static calculations
- In civil engineering:
  - Structural engineering , for the calculation of real static systems
  - Proof of stability

Statics (electrical engineering) , a linear characteristic for regulating generators
Comparative statics , a term from microeconomics

static analysis , an aspect of computer science when testing software

Statik is the name of the following people:

Statik Selektah (* 1982), an American hip-hop DJ

See also:

Static

Wiktionary: Statics - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations