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Kinetics (Ancient Greek: κίνησις, kinesis, movement or to move) may refer to:

In science and medicine

• Kinetics (physics), the study of motion and its causes
  • Rigid body kinetics, the study of the motion of rigid bodies
• Chemical kinetics, the study of chemical reaction rates
  • Enzyme kinetics, the study of biochemical reaction rates catalysed by an enzyme
    • Michaelis–Menten kinetics, the widely accepted general model of enzyme kinetics
    • Goldbeter-Koshland kinetics
    • Langmuir-Hinshelwood kinetics
  • Receptor-ligand kinetics
    • Hill kinetics
• Pharmacokinetics, the study of the processes a substance undergoes in the human body, particularly the rates at which it is absorbed, distributed, metabolised and excreted
  • One-compartment kinetics
  • Flip-flop kinetics, the pharmacokinetics of sustained-release or extended-release drug formulations
  • Toxicokinetics, the branch of pharmacokinetics dealing with compounds that are toxic or can be administered in toxic doses
• Human kinetics or kinesiology, the study of human biomechanical movement
• C₀t analysis, also known as DNA recombination kinetics

Companies

• Kinetics (company), a technology company
• ST Kinetics, a weaponry and specialty vehicle manufacturer
• Color Kinetics, a former lighting company, now part of the Philips group of companies
• Kinetics, a bicycle manufacturer

Other uses

• The Kinetics, a rock band
• Kinetics Internet Protocol (KIP), an AppleTalk network protocol
• NASCAR Kinetics, a semester-long experiential program offered to several American universities

[edit] See also

• Kinetic
• Kinematics
• Analytical mechanics
• Analytical dynamics

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