So the product of Newtonian mechanics of predicting the future given the present, has got two parts, and one is called kinematics and the other is called dynamics.

所以牛顿力学,基于现状对未来的预测,包含两个部分,一部分被称为运动学,而另一部分被称为动力学

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The plan, every time, is to predict the future given the present.

无论何时,我们的做法都是根据现状来预测未来

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