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hypothesis
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Romaine, Le Page and Tabouret-Keller and others have raised serious theoretical objections to the continuum hypothesis itself, as described above.
mechanics
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The language of continuum mechanics is increasingly being used in modern material science.
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This subject is broadly termed continuum mechanics and is an academic discipline in its own right.
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In large-strain elasticity and in continuum mechanics the stress-strain law is non-linear and W is no longer a quadratic function of the strains.
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There is in fact a great need for research in this area of the applicability of continuum mechanics .
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This new textbook describes the Boundary Element Method, a powerful and accurate computational technique in continuum mechanics .
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The continuum mechanics approach Continuum mechanics is a more general theory than elasticity theory.
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At the beginning of the century it was believed that everything could be understood in terms of continuum mechanics .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Mental development follows a set course along a continuum .
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As the first results came in, so too did the first signs of a strange disruption in the space-time continuum .
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At the bottom of the continuum are commonly used labels ranging from autocratic to laissez-faire.
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But still the image of a continuum persisted.
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From terns to peafowl, there is a kind of continuum of different criteria.
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Many mini-theories involve the r - K continuum .
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Piaget conceptualized development as a continuous process along a continuum .
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The structure now reflects the continuum rather than the discrete units we perceive.
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These values are assumed to reside in the cultural continuum which Bateson sees as stretching from 1200 to the present.