A comprehensive introduction to the mechanics and physics of solids and fluids, providing all the necessary background to the physics of the continuum theory of condensed systems for graduate students of physics, materials science and geophysics in one volume. In this lucid and comprehensive treatment of the wide and varied field of continuum theory the subject is systematically developed from the fundamental stress and strain tensors.
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Graduates students of physics, material science and geophysics.
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978-0-85274-500-7 (9780852745007)
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Outline. Scalars, vectors and tensors. Deformation, strain and thermal expansion tensor. Stress tensor and elastic constants: Stress components and some basic equations of elasticity. Elastic constants for isotropic solids for various homogeneous deformations. Equilibrium equation and its application. Equation of motion and wave propagation. Transformation laws for elastic constants and the effect of crystal symmetry. The thermodynamics of solids. Application of equilibrium equation to fluids. Perfect fluids: Euler's equations. Irrotational (potential flow) in three dimensions. Potential flow in two dimensions: complex-variable method. Fluids with viscosity: The Navier-Stokes equation. Sound propagation. The Navier-Stokes equation: flow problems. Appendix. Bibliography. Index
