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when forces are applied.
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If this is a perfect elastic material like a rubber band
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or like the springs you learned about in physics,
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when I apply a force here,
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it instantaneously changes its length.
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Deformations are instantaneous; they take no time at all
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for a perfect elastic material.
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How much would the deformation occur?
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Well it would depend on the elasticity,
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but as soon as I added that force it's going to stretch out--
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bang--to that length and it's going to stay there.
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You know real materials don't behave like this