Difference Between Kinetics and Kinematics

Both the branches of physics deals with the different forces acting upon an object.

Kinematics describes the motion of the bodies and deals with finding out velocities or accelerations for various objects.
Kinetics deals with the forces or torque applied on a body.

What is the difference between Kinetics and Kinematics?

Kinetics focuses on the causes of different motions of objects such as in case of rotational motion, force or torques is dealt with kinetics.

Kinematics focuses on the velocities, acceleration and position of objects. Kinematics doesn’t consider the masses of the object.

Kinetics	Kinematics
Deals with the causes for the motions of the object	Deals with the position, acceleration, speed of an object
Takes into consideration the mass of the object	Doesn’t take into consideration the mass of the object
Its practical applications can be found in the designing of automobiles	Its application can be found in the study of the movement of celestial bodies
It takes forces explicitly into account	It doesn’t take forces explicitly into account
It does not have more mathematical expressions	It has more mathematical expressions
It is also known as dynamics	It is called with the same name
This topic is used in various branches of science such as biology, chemistry and physics	This topic is used in physics, mechanics in terms of engineering