Solution

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Use conservation of mass and Newton's momentum balance, in addition to the supplied constitutive law. For a material volume,
The Reynolds transport theorem and reduce the left side to . The divergence theorem then gives . For constant ,
Incompressibility removes the last term. Thus
The stress formula and zero divergence alone are not a dynamical law: the force balance supplies the required physical input.

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