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PHYSICS OF CONTINUOUS MATTER

TEXT: B. Lautrup Continuum Physics, Exotic and everyday Phenomena in the Macroscopic World
    All chapter and exercise numbers refer to this book.

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Lecture 1            Tue, Aug 20 2002

Reading:

Title page
Contents
Preface

Chapter 1: Continuous matter
Chapter 2: Space and time 

sections 2.1-2.3

(Optional reading: T. Bohr recommendsG.I. Barenblatt: Scaling self-similiarity ..., introductory chapters on dimensional analysis)

Lecture 2            Thu, Aug 22 2002

Problem set I: 2.1 - 2.9

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Lecture 3            Tue, Aug 27 2002

Reading:
Chapter 2: Space and time
sections 2.4 - 2.6

Chapter 3: Gravity
sections 3.1 - 3.5

Lecture 4            Thu, Aug 29 2002

Problem set II: 2.10, 2.12, 2.17, 3.3, 3.5, 3.7
Answers to problem set I: Chapter 2
    [note a typo - answer to 2.1c is (-24,-18,-17)]

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Lecture 5            Tue, Sep 3 2002

Reading:
Chapter 4: Fluids at rest
sections 4.1 -
4.4
(Optional reading: T. Bohr says that
Prandtl & Tietjens, Fundamentals of Hydro- and Aeromechanics, is fun)
Chapter 5: Buoyancy
sections 5.1 - 5.3

Lecture 6            Thu, Sep 5 2002

Problem set III: 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.5, 5.7
Answers to problem set II: Chapter 3  

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Lecture 7            Tue, Sep 10 2002

Reading:
Chapter 5: Buoyancy
section 5.4

Chapter 6: Planets and stars
sections 6.1 - 6.2
(skip Chapter 7: Hydrostatic shapes )

Lecture 8            Thu, Sep 12 2002
(thematically, end of the first 1/3 of the course)

Problem set IV: 5.6, 6.1, 6.2
(browny points: any of 6.4, 6.13)

Part of answers to problem set III:
Chapters 4, 5,
Predrag's solution to5.5 - source.tex

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Lecture 9            Tue, Sep 17 2002

Reading:
Chapter 8: Stress
sections 8.1 - 8.4

Lecture 10            Thu, Sept 19 2002

Problem set V: 8.1, 8.2, 8.8
(browny points: 8.3 - bunch od browny points, 8.5, 8.7)

Part of answers to problem set IV:
Chapters 5, 6

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Lecture 11            Tue, Sep 24 2002

Reading:

Chapter 9: Strain
sections 9.1 - 9.3

Lecture 12            Thu, Sept 26 2002

Problem set VI: 9.1, 9.2, 9.5, 9.6
(browny points: 9.4, 9.7)

Part of answers to problem set V:
Chapter 8

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Lecture 13            Tue, Oct 1 2002

Reading:
Chapter 10: Linear elasticity

sections 10.1 - 10.3

(skip Chapter 11: Solids at rest)
(skip Chapter 12: Numeric elastostatics )

Midterm exam       
Thu, Oct 3 at 9:35-10:55 in Howey N209

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Lecture 14            Tue, Oct 8 2002

Lecture 15            Thu, Oct 10 2002

Problem set VIII: 13.1, 13.2, 13.3 - due Oct 17
Part of answers to problem set VII:
Chapter 10

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Midterm recess: to Tue, Oct 15 2002

Lecture 16            Thu, Oct 17 2002

Problem set IX:  14.2, 14.3, 14.4

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Lecture 17           Tue, Oct 22 2002

Lecture 18            Thu, Oct 24 2002

Reading:
Chapter 15: Nearly ideal flow
sections 15.1 - 15.6

Problem set X: 14.5, 14.8, 15.1, 15.4 (browny points: 14.9, 15.3)

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Lecture 19           Tue, Oct 29 2002


Reading:
Chapter 16: Material transport

sections 16. - 16.8
Chapter 17: Viscosity
(Optional reading: L.D. Landau and E.M. Lifshitz, Fluid Mechanics (Pergamon, London, 1959) summarize it all in equations (15.21), (15.22), though with several typos)
sections 17.1, 17.4, 17.4

Lecture 20            Thu, Oct 31 2002

Problem set XI - tex - fig , and exercises 17.1 (browny point: 17.5)

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Lecture 21           Tue, Nov 5 2002

Reading:
Chapter 18: Plates and tubes
sections 18.1 - 18.7

(skip Chapter 19: Computational fluid dynamics )
(skip Chapter 20: Sound in fluids )
(skip Chapter 21: Whirls and vortices )

Lecture 22            Thu, Nov 7. 2002

Guest Lecturer: Laurette Tuckerman:
All that is known about channel and pipe flows - lecture notes
References:
Incompressible Flow, by Ronald L. Panton
Turbulence and Transition Modelling: Lecture Notes by M. Hallback, D.S. Henningson and A. V. Johansson, eds.

Problem set XII: 18.1, 18.9 (browny points: 18.3, 18.8)

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Lecture 23            Tue, Nov 12 2002

Reading:
Chapter 24: Boundary layers
section 24.1 (up to "Merging boundary layers"),24.2

Chapter 22: Creeping flow

Lecture 24            Thu, Nov 14 2002

Problem set XIII: 24.2, 22.5 (browny points: 22.4)

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under constr. Rest of the schedule is preliminary

Lecture 25            Tue, Nov 19 2002

Reading:
Web Links: Linear stability
(skip Chapter 23: Lubrication )

Lecture 26            Thu, Nov 21 2002

Reading:
Web Links: Faraday waves
Problem set IXX:

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Lecture 27            Tue, Nov 26 2002

Reading:
(skip Chapter 25: Rotating fluids )
(skip Chapter 26: Aerodynamics )

Thanksgiving: starts Thu, Nov 28 2002

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Lecture 28           Tue, Dec 3 2002

Review of the key results: elasticity, fluids


Final exam

Thu, Dec 12 8:00-10:50 in Howey N209

(Closed book, on material covered in lectures starting with chapter 8)

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Predrag Cvitanovic', predrag.cvitanovic@physics.gatech.edu