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Up to our humble knowledge, beside time and space our universe consists of energy and matter. As matters mostly take a form of materials, it then became a human’s natural urge to study how these materials behave and how this behaviour relates with energy in the framework of space and space-time .
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Mohamed, N.A.N. (2023). Introduction. In: Introduction to Continuum Mechanics for Engineers. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-0811-0_1
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