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Past exam of the theoretical mechanics course of the University of Oxford 2008 A 1 ii Solution by
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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. ThusThe stress formula and zero divergence alone are not a dynamical law: the force balance supplies the required physical input.
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