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A distinctive feature of the mechanical systems we have discussed so far is that their number of degrees of freedom is finite and hence countable. The mechanics of deformable macroscopic media goes beyond this framework. The reaction of a solid state to external forces, the flow behavior of a liquid in a force field, or the dynamics of a gas in a vessel cannot be described by means of finitely many coordinate variables.
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Scheck, F. (2010). Continuous Systems. In: Mechanics. Graduate Texts in Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-05370-2_7
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