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What does rigid mean?


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Rigid:

  1. A rigid body (also known as a rigid object) is a solid body with zero or so small deformation that it can be ignored in physics.
  2. The distance between any two points on a rigid body remains constant over time, regardless of the external forces or moments acting on it.

Diagram of rigid body is given below:


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