Abstract
Here the buckling of inextensible rods due to axial body forces is mapped to 1D, nonrelativistic, time-independent quantum mechanics. Focusing on the pedagogical case of rods confined to 2D, three simple and physically realizable applications of the mapping are given in detail; the quantum counterparts of these are particle in a box, particle in a delta-function well, and particle in a triangular well. A fourth application examines the buckling counterpart of a quantum many-body problem (in the Hartree approximation). Through a fifth application, given in the form of an exercise, the reader can explore the surprising consequences of adding a second transverse dimension to the rod buckling problem and imposing periodic boundary conditions.
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