Training manual for universities . - Voronezh: VSU Publishing House, 2008. - 86 s. In the first part of the manual, the kinematics of the material point and the system of material points (solid body) are considered, that is, the movement is analyzed without taking into account the cause that caused the change in the state of movement. Clarification of the causes leading to a change in the state of motion of bodies is engaged in the section of mechanics, which is called dynamics. The second part of the manual is devoted to the dynamics of the material point and the system of material points. The textbook was prepared at the Department of General Physics of the Faculty of Physics of Voronezh State University . Recommended for first-year full-time students.