Physics of Continuous Matter: Exotic and Everyday Phenomena in the Macroscopic World
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…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 helpful…The 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 subject…put together very elegantly and intelligently, illustrated by many examples from geophysics, astrophysics and other fields…a 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
Book Description
With equal emphasis on intuition and formalism, this text provides a unified, comprehensive, and coherent introduction to continuum physics that requires only some Newtonian mechanics and modest mathematical prerequisites that are further developed in the text. Based on the author's years of teaching the subject, the book is highly structured and useful on several tracks: as the main text for a course on continuum physics or as the foundation for courses on more specialized areas, such as solid mechanics, fluid mechanics, geophysics, and astrophysics. It contains all the usual features of a textbook: plenty of illustrations, problem sets with solutions, and an introduction to numerical simulations. OTIs OTI 1 IP177
Physics of Continuous Matter: Exotic and Everyday Phenomena in the Macroscopic World,B. Lautrup,Taylor & Francis,0750307528,Mechanics - General,Physics,Science,Science/Mathematics,Science / Physics
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