physical property when materials or objects return to original shape after deformation
Elasticity is a physical property that describes how materials or objects bounce back to their original shape after being bent, stretched, or compressed. It matters because understanding which materials are elastic helps us choose the right materials for different purposes—like knowing that rubber bands snap back while clay doesn't.
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Solid mechanics
Deformation
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).