Physics of Continuous Matter

       Exotic and everyday phenomena in the macroscopic world

       Benny Lautrup
            The Niels Bohr Institute
            Copenhagen, Denmark

           Draft number 7.6,  December 2003.

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            Title

            Contents

            Preface

1. Continuous matter

2. Space and time

3. Gravity

4. Fluids at rest

5. Buoyancy

6. Planets and stars

7. Hydrostatic shapes

8. Stress

9. Strain

10. Linear elasticity

11. Solids at rest

12. Vibrations in solids

13. Numeric elastostatics

14. Matter in motion

15. Nearly ideal flow.

16. Material transport

17. Viscosity

18. Channels and pipes

19. Creeping flow

20. Rotating fluids

21. Computational fluid dynamics

22. Surface waves

23. Whirls and vortices

24. Lubrication

25. Boundary layers

26. Subsonic flight

27. Heat

28. Convection

29. Nonlinear

30. Turbulence

1. Units and constants

2. Newtonian particle mechanics

   Answers to problems

  Bibliography

  Index