Overview

This textbook provides a unified, comprehensive and coherent introduction to continuum physics from a modern perspective. Continuum physics is the systematic description of the macroscopic physical world based on classical mechanics and field theory, and in one guise or another forms part of all university physics degrees. The book covers, amongst other topics, properties of matter, mechanics, gravitation, fluid mechanics, sound and vibration. It can be used as the main text for a course in continuum physics or as the foundation for a series of related courses on more specialised topics. Well illustrated throughout, it contains all the usual features of a textbook including a good set of sample problems (with solutions) at the end of each chapter.

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Author:   B. Lautrup (The Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Institute of Physics Publishing
Dimensions:   Width: 21.60cm , Height: 3.40cm , Length: 27.90cm
Weight:   1.429kg
ISBN:  

9780750307529

ISBN 10:   0750307528
Pages:   624
Publication Date:   16 December 2004
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Professional & Vocational
Replaced By:   9781420077001
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock  

Table of Contents

Introduction Continuous Matter Space and Time Gravity Fluids at Rest Pressure Buoyancy Planets and Stars Hydrostatic Shapes Surface Tension Deformable Solids Stress Strain Linear Elasticity Solids at Rest Computational Elastostatics Elastic Vibrations Basic Hydrodynamics Fluids in Motion Nearly Ideal Flow Viscosity Plates and Pipes Creeping Flow Rotating Fluids Computational Fluid Dynamics Special Topics Global Laws of Balance Reaction Forces and Moments Small-Amplitude Surface Waves Jumps and Shocks Whirls and Vortices Lubrication Boundary Layers Subsonic Flight Heat Convection Turbulence Newtonian Particle Mechanics Curvilinear Coordinates Thermodynamics of Ideal Gases Answers to problems Bibliography Index

Reviews

a superb text on continuum theory and applications with absolutely outstanding graphics. The graphs and figures in the side panels I expect will be extremely helpfulThe book is at the same time introductory and advanced, and the range of topics is exceptionally wide -- Professor Richard Lovelace, Cornell University perhaps the only modern advanced undergraduate introduction to the subjectput together very elegantly and intelligently, illustrated by many examples from geophysics, astrophysics and other fieldsa pleasure to teach. For a student who has already encountered solid and fluid mechanics, the text offers rigor and breadth; nothing is asserted, everything is derived. -- Predrag Cvitanovic, Glen P. Robinson Chair in Nonlinear Sciences, School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology

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