Re: How can rigid bodies exist?

From: Jack Martinelli (jack_at_martinelli.org)
Date: 10/26/04


Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 18:46:21 GMT


"Erland Gadde" <erland@bredband.net> wrote in message
news:c114637b.0410260358.1a554c5b@posting.google.com...
> Few things seem so self evident for us in our everyday's life as rigid
> bodies.

The word "rigid" is context sensitive. If you can find a _reference length_
that is static with respect to some other length of interest you can say
that it is rigid with respect to the reference length.

see: http://martinelli.org/rexpansion/ for more detail.

Regards

Jack Martinelli

http://www.martinelli.org



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