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Continuum Mechanics: Three Spatial Dimensions

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The water in the ocean, the air in the room, and a rubber ball have a common characteristic, they appear to completely occupy their respective domains. What this means is that the material occupies every point in the domain.

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Holmes, M.H. (2019). Continuum Mechanics: Three Spatial Dimensions. In: Introduction to the Foundations of Applied Mathematics. Texts in Applied Mathematics, vol 56. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24261-9_8

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