Dear student,
For a rigid body the Poisson's ratio is equal to zero .
Also note that most materials have Poisson's ratio values ranging between 0.0 and 0.5.
And a perfectly incompressible material which is elastically deformed at small strains generally have a Poisson's ratio of exactly 0.5.
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