A four-dimensional Hooke's law can encompass linear elasticity and inertia

Details A four-dimensional Hooke's law can encompass linear elasticity and inertia A four-dimensional Hooke's law can encompass linear elasticity and inertia

1999-06-23

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9906094v1

Nuovo Cim. B114 (1999) 873

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

AMS LaTeX, 8 pages, Nuovo Cimento B (in press)

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The question is examined, whether the formally straightforward extension of Hooke's time-honoured stress-strain relation to the four dimensions of special and of general relativity can make physical sense. The four-dimensional Hooke's law is found able to account for the inertia of matter; in the flat space, slow motion approximation the field equations for the ``displacement'' four-vector field can encompass both linear elasticity and inertia. In this limit one just recovers the equations of motion of the classical theory of elasticity.

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