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continuum mechanics

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Physics

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Continuum mechanics refers to the physics/mechanics of continuous bodies such as notably fluids?. As opposed to the mechanics of point particles (to which it is of course related by various limiting processes).

Created on November 1, 2012 16:37:33 by Urs Schreiber (131.174.41.102)