(1) Department of Civil Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, GR-54124 Thessaloniki, Greece;(2) Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Ioannina, GR-45110 Ioannina, Greece
Abstract:
Based on a recent paper of Yavari et al, we show how the equation of material momentum can be obtained from invariance of
the energy balance under translations in the material space. This approach further highlights the duality between the physical
and material space.