3.12 Time Rate of Change of a Material Element

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We need to compute the rate of change  at time t.  Let us use spatial coordinates  and denote

Note that in this definition  is defined with respect to the spatial coordinate system, e.g. and not

 Velocity gradient = =  where (), j with respect to spatial coordinates

 Thus

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