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Broadly speaking, Mechanics is the branch of physics that studies the behavior of a body when it is subjected to forces, (e.g. deformation) and how it evolves over time.
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Chaves, E.W.V. (2013). Introduction. In: Notes on Continuum Mechanics. Lecture Notes on Numerical Methods in Engineering and Sciences. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5986-2_1
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