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Physics of Continuous Matter
Exotic and Everyday Phenomena in the Macroscopic World
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Physics of Continuous Matter: Exotic and Everyday Phenomena in the Macroscopic World, Second Edition provides an introduction to the basic ideas of continuum physics and their application to a wealth of macroscopic phenomena. The text focuses on the many approximate methods that offer insight into the rich physics hidden in fundamental continuum me
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Table of contents
- Front cover
- Contents
- Preface
- Chapter 1. Continuous matter
- Part I. Fluids at rest
- Chapter 2. Pressure
- Chapter 3. Buoyancy and stability
- Chapter 4. Hydrostatic shapes
- Chapter 5. Surface tension
- Part II. Solids at rest
- Chapter 6. Stress
- Chapter 7. Strain
- Chapter 8. Hooke's law
- Chapter 9. Basic elastostatics
- Chapter 10. Slender rods
- Chapter 11. Computational elastostatics
- Part III. Fluids in motion
- Chapter 12. Continuum dynamics
- Chapter 13. Nearly ideal ow
- Chapter 14. Compressible flow
- Chapter 15. Viscosity
- Chapter 16. Channels and pipes
- Chapter 17. Creeping flow
- Chapter 18. Rotating uids
- Chapter 19. Computational fluid dynamics
- Part IV. Balance and conservation
- Chapter 20. Mechanical balances
- Chapter 21. Action and reaction
- Chapter 22. Energy
- Chapter 23. Entropy
- Part V. Selected topics
- Chapter 24. Elastic vibrations
- Chapter 25. Gravity waves
- Chapter 26. Jumps and shocks
- Chapter 27. Whirls and vortices
- Chapter 28. Boundary layers
- Chapter 29. Subsonic flight
- Chapter 30. Convection
- Chapter 31. Turbulence
- Part VI. Appendices
- Appendix A. Newtonian mechanics
- Appendix B. Cartesian coordinates
- Appendix C. Field calculus
- Appendix D. Curvilinear coordinates
- Appendix E. Ideal gases
- Answers to problems
- References
- Back Cover