PHY 4335 Physics of Continuous Media
3 units
Physics
Faculty of Science
Conservation laws in continuous media and tensor notation. Elasticity theory: Hooke's law, stress-strain relations, sound waves in solids. Hydrodynamics: incompressible flows, Navier-Stokes equation, sound wave in fluids, shock waves. Elementary plasma physics: magnetohydrodynamics, plasma oscillations, Landau damping.
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Lecture
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Winter