Painlevé paradox
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Painlevé paradox is a well known example by Paul Painlevé in rigid-body dynamics which, it was claimed, showed that rigid-body dynamics with contact and Coulomb friction is inconsistent. The paradox was resolved (see [1] for a quick explanation) in the 1990s by David E. Stewart.
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