Physics of Continuous Matter
eBook - PDF

Physics of Continuous Matter

Exotic and Everyday Phenomena in the Macroscopic World

  1. 696 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Physics of Continuous Matter

Exotic and Everyday Phenomena in the Macroscopic World

About this book

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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Information

Publisher
CRC Press
Year
2011
eBook ISBN
9781439894200

Table of contents

  1. Front cover
  2. Contents
  3. Preface
  4. Chapter 1. Continuous matter
  5. Part I. Fluids at rest
  6. Chapter 2. Pressure
  7. Chapter 3. Buoyancy and stability
  8. Chapter 4. Hydrostatic shapes
  9. Chapter 5. Surface tension
  10. Part II. Solids at rest
  11. Chapter 6. Stress
  12. Chapter 7. Strain
  13. Chapter 8. Hooke's law
  14. Chapter 9. Basic elastostatics
  15. Chapter 10. Slender rods
  16. Chapter 11. Computational elastostatics
  17. Part III. Fluids in motion
  18. Chapter 12. Continuum dynamics
  19. Chapter 13. Nearly ideal ow
  20. Chapter 14. Compressible flow
  21. Chapter 15. Viscosity
  22. Chapter 16. Channels and pipes
  23. Chapter 17. Creeping flow
  24. Chapter 18. Rotating uids
  25. Chapter 19. Computational fluid dynamics
  26. Part IV. Balance and conservation
  27. Chapter 20. Mechanical balances
  28. Chapter 21. Action and reaction
  29. Chapter 22. Energy
  30. Chapter 23. Entropy
  31. Part V. Selected topics
  32. Chapter 24. Elastic vibrations
  33. Chapter 25. Gravity waves
  34. Chapter 26. Jumps and shocks
  35. Chapter 27. Whirls and vortices
  36. Chapter 28. Boundary layers
  37. Chapter 29. Subsonic flight
  38. Chapter 30. Convection
  39. Chapter 31. Turbulence
  40. Part VI. Appendices
  41. Appendix A. Newtonian mechanics
  42. Appendix B. Cartesian coordinates
  43. Appendix C. Field calculus
  44. Appendix D. Curvilinear coordinates
  45. Appendix E. Ideal gases
  46. Answers to problems
  47. References
  48. Back Cover