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All statements in continuum mechanics relate to material bodies which continuously fill parts of space with matter. Matter is the actual scene of physical occurrences: a material body can be identified with different parts of space at different moments in time and is simultaneously the carrier of the physical processes.
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Haupt, P. (2002). Kinematics. In: Continuum Mechanics and Theory of Materials. Advanced Texts in Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-04775-0_2
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