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Kinematics describes how things move—the patterns of motion themselves, including both rotation (angular motion) and translation (linear motion). It focuses on position, velocity, and acceleration, as well as angular velocity and angular acceleration, without considering the forces that cause the motion. That makes it the exact term for describing motion in space, whether an engine turns a wheel or a limb rotates around a joint.

Kinetics, by contrast, looks at forces and torques that produce motion; statics studies bodies at rest or in equilibrium; dynamics is the broader term that often encompasses the study of motion along with the forces involved.