This monograph provides a comprehensive and self-contained treatment of continuum physics, illustrating a systematic approach to the constitutive equations for wide-ranging classes of materials.  Derivations of results are detailed through careful proofs, and the contents have been developed to ensure a self-contained and consistent presentation.Part I reviews the kinematics of continuous bodies and illustrates the general setting of balance laws.  Essential preliminaries to continuum physics – such as reference and current configurations, transport relations, singular surfaces,...