Abstract
I am often asked why rational mechanics is necessarily continuum mechanics. The answer is that it is not. The cultivators of rational mechanics try to maintain standards of two kinds:
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The model adopted should mirror nature.
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The mathematics, besides being rigorous, should match the model in generality.
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Truesdell, C. (1966). The ergodic problem in classical statistical mechanics. In: Six Lectures on Modern Natural Philosophy. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-29756-8_5
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