What Is a Deformable System in Physics?

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I'm having trouble understanding what a deformable system is? Please give me a detailed example with your explanation.

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serway said:
I'm having trouble understanding what a deformable system is? Please give me a detailed example with your explanation.

Thanks!

de·form (d-fôrm)
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3. Physics To alter the shape of by pressure or stress.

A tennis ball, a rock, a car, you, the moon, a crystal, a nucleus,