PHYSICS OF CONTINUOUS MATTER

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

Lecture 1              Thu Jan 8 2004

Reading:

Title page
Contents
Preface
Chapter 1: Continuous matter
Chapter 2: Space and time 
sections 2.1-2.6    note: chapters 1 to 7 are version 7.6
(Optional reading: T. Bohr recommends
G.I. Barenblatt: Scaling self-similiarity ..., introductory chapters on dimensional analysis)

Friday Jan 9:    Registration ends

Lecture 2              Tue Jan 13 2004

Reading:
Chapter 3: Gravity
sections 3.1 - 3.5

Lecture 3              Thu Jan 15 2004

Reading:
Chapter 4: Fluids at rest
sections 4.1 - 4.4
(section 4.5 optional, thermodynamics applied to atmosphere. Furter optional reading: T. Bohr recommends
Prandtl & Tietjens, Fundamentals of Hydro- and Aeromechanics)

due: problem set I, problems 2.1 - 2.9

Monday Jan 19:    Martin Luther King day, no classes

Lecture 4              Tue Jan 20 2004

Chapter 5: Buoyancy
sections 5.1 - 5.4

due: problem set II, problems 2.11, 2.13, 2.19, 3.6, 3.10, 3.14
(bonus points: 3.11, 3.15)
Answers to problem set I: Chapter 2

Lecture 5              Thu Jan 22 2004

Reading:
Chapter 6: Planets and stars
sections 6.1 - 6.2
(skip Chapter 7: Hydrostatic shapes ,
Chapter 8: Surface tension

(thematically, end of the first 1/3 of the course)

Lecture 6              Tue Jan 27 2004

Reading:
Chapter 9: Stress
sections 9.1 - 9.4

note: version 7.7 starting with this chapter

Lecture 7              Thu Jan 29 2004

Reading:
Chapter 10: Strain
sections 10.1 - 10.3

due: problem set III, problems 4.1, 4.3, 5.1, 5.2, 5.5
Answers to problem set II: Chapter 3

Lecture 8              Tue Feb 3 2004

Reading:
Chapter 11: Linear elasticity

sections 11.1 - 11.3

due: problem set IV, problems 5.10, 6.1, 6.2
(bonus points: 5.11, 6.4, 6.14)
Part of answers to problem set III: Chapters 3, 4

Lecture 9              Thu Feb 5 2004

Lecture 10              Tue Feb 10 2004

Reading:
Chapter 12: Solids at rest
sections 12.1, 12.4
Answers to problem set IV: Chapters 4, 5 , Chapters 5, 6

Lecture 11              Thu Feb 12 2004

Reading:
Chapter 13: Vibrations in solids    (note: here we use version 7.8, February 2004 rewrite)
sections 13.1, 13.4
(skip Chapter 14: Numeric elastostatics )

Friday Feb 13:    last day to drop the course

Lecture 12              Tue Feb 17 2004

Problem set V: 9.1, 9.2, 9.4
(bonus points: 9.7)

Problem set VI: 10.1, 10.4, 10.5
(bonus points: 10.3, 10.13)

Answers to problem sets V and VI: Chapters 8, 9 , Chapter 9, 10

Lecture 13              Thu Feb 19 2004

Review of the first 1/2 of the course
Please e-mail to me the topics you would like discussed ahead of the class.

Problem set VII: 11.1, 11.4
(bonus points: 11.7)

Answers to problem set VII: Chapter 11

(thematically, end of the first 1/2 of the course)

(Closed book, on material covered in lectures up to Feb 19 2004, only the sections from chapters 3 to 12 indicated in the syllabus above)

Lecture 14              Thu Feb 26 2004

Reading:
Chapter 15: Fluids in motion
sections 15.1 - 15.3

Friday Feb 27:    midterm grades due

No lecture 15 - cancelled              Tue Mar 2 2004

Reading:
Chapter 15: Fluids in motion
sections 15.4 - 15.6

Lecture 16              Thu Mar 4 2004

Midterm recess: spring break week, Mar 8 to Mar 12 2004

Lecture 17              Tue Mar 16 2004

Reading:
Chapter 16: Nearly ideal flow
sections 16.1 - 16.6

Optional reading:
Multi-media Fluid Mechanics, Homsy et al, Cambridge University Press 2000

due: problem set VIII, problems 13.1, 13.2; (bonus points: 13.3) - Note: all from version 7.7, Chapter 13: Elastic vibrations, page 221.

Answers to problem sets VIII, IX: Chapters 13, 14, 15

Lecture 18              Thu Mar 18 2004

Lecture 19              Tue Mar 23 2004

(skip Chapter 17: Global laws of balance )

Lecture 20              Thu Mar 25 2004

Reading:
Chapter 18: Viscosity
sections 18.1 - 18.3

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

Lecture 21              Tue Mar 30 2004

Reading:
Chapter 18: Viscosity
section 18.4
Chapter 19: Channels and pipes
sections 19.1 - 19.6

due: problem set X, problems 16.1, 16.2 (bonus points: 16.3, 16.6)

Answers to problem set X: Chapter 16

Lecture 22              Thu Apr 1 2004

due: problem set XI, problems 18.3, 18.5, 18.7 (bonus points: 18.1)

Answers to problem set XI: Chapter 18

Lecture 23              Tue Apr 6 2004

Reading:
Chapter 20: Creeping flow
sections 20.1 - 20.3

Linda Turner's E. Coli flagellae movie (swimming at 1/Re = 10^5).

Wednesday, Apr 7:    fall registration starts

Lecture 24              Thu Apr 8 2004

Reading:
Chapter 21: Computational fluid dynamics
sections 21.1 - 21.3

Hans E. Johnston: Pressure method paper
Liu-E notes MAC method

due: problem set XII, problems 19.1, 19.8, 19.9, 19.13 (bonus points: 19.15, 19.17)

Answers to problem set XII: Chapter 19

Lecture 25              Tue Apr 13 2004

Reading:
Chapter 22: Small-amplitude surface waves
sections 22.1 - 22.5

due: problem set XIII, problems 20.1 (2 points), 20.6 (4 points), 20.7 (3 points); bonus 20.8 (7 points)

Answers to problem set XIII: Chapter 20

Lecture 26              Thu Apr 15 2004

Reading:
(skip Chapter 23: Whirls and vortices
Chapter 24: Lubrication )

due: problem set XIV, problem 21.2 (3 points).

Tuesday Apr 20:    fall registration ends

Lecture 27              Tue Apr 20 2004

Chapter 25: Boundary layers
section 25.1 (up to "Merging boundary layers"), 25.2

due: problem set XV, problems 22.1 (2 points), 22.5 (2 points), 22.10 (2 points); bonus 22.12 (2 points), bonus 22.15 (6 points)

Answers to problem set XV: Chapters 21, 22 , Chapters 22, 23

Reading:
(skip Chapter 26: Rotating fluids )
(skip Chapter 27: Subsonic flight )
(skip Chapter 28: Heat )
(skip Chapter 29: Convection )
(skip Chapter 30: Nonlinear waves )
(skip Chapter 30: Turbulence )

Lecture 28              Thu Apr 22 2004

Review of the key results: elasticity, fluids

Friday Apr 23:    classes end

Monday Apr 26:    finals week, until Apr 30

Final exam
Thursday, Apr 29 at 12:05-1:25 in Howey S104

(Closed book, on material covered in lectures, chapters 15 to 22, only the sections indicated in the syllabus above)

Monday May 03:    semester end

Thursday May 06:    grades due

The course musical theme:
The Grand Poobah, by Joshua Bodyfelt