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The situation is actually more complex in that there is also no_______________________________________________
such thing
as a rigid body! This means that an applied force has to propagate
through
objects as a compressional wave (speed of sound ?) before a steady
state
is obtained. The bottom line is that you can't expect the simple
behavior
we describe in elementary problems to withstand scrutiny in the
limit of
t -> 0 .