This, I believe, is the type of problem which first motivated Bruce
Sherwood to realize that the standard form of the W-E Theorem presented in
the C.M. frame does not work in this setting. The object is deformable.
His subsequent considerations led to (I believe) 2 AJP articles whose exact
references I do not have at my finger tips. Maybe someone else remembers
them.
Dewey
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world."--A. Einstein in The Evolution of Physics with L. Infeld,
1938
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