"Physics of Continuous Matter: Exotic and Everyday Phenomena in the Macroscopic World, Second Edition provides an introduction to the basic ideas of continuum physics and their application to a wealth of macroscopic phenomena. The text focuses on the many approximate methods that offer insight into the rich physics hidden in fundamental cintinuum mechanics equations. Like its acclaimed predecessor, this second edition introduces mathematical tool on a "need-to-know" basis." -- Page 4 of cover.

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