What is mechanical equilibrium? - Vidyadip

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What is mechanical equilibrium?

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A system is said to be in mechanical equilibrium when there are no unbalanced forces within the system and between the system and its surroundings.
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A system is said to be in mechanical equilibrium when the pressure in the system is the same throughout and does not change with time.
[Note: The constituents of a system, atoms, molecules, ions, etc, are never at rest. Within a system, even in the condition of equilibrium, statistical fluctuations do occur, but the time of observation is usually very large so that these fluctuations can be ignored.]

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