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[โ€“] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

hmmm... I was going to go with continuum mechanics as that seems made up. Maybe Euler contributed something to Lagrange.

[โ€“] marcos@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuum_mechanics

Continuum mechanics deals with deformable bodies, as opposed to rigid bodies.

I guess F = ma is pure Newton + Galileo + Kepler + a bunch of people that weren't Euler.