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.

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

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)]

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  

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

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

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

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 )

Problem set VII: 10.1, 10.4
(browny points: 10.7)
Part of answers to problem set VI: Chapter 9
Predrag's corrected solution to 9.2 - source.tex

(Closed book, on material covered in lectures up to Sept 26 2002, only the sections from chapters 3 to 10 indicated in the syllabus above)

Lecture 14            Tue, Oct 8 2002

Reading:
Chapter 13: Vibrations in solids

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

Midterm recess: to Tue, Oct 15 2002

Lecture 16            Thu, Oct 17 2002

Reading:
Chapter 14: Matter in motion
sections 14.1 - 14.4

Problem set IX:  14.2, 14.3, 14.4

Lecture 17           Tue, Oct 22 2002

Reading:
Chapter 14: Matter in motion
sections 14.5 - 14.6