Fall 2009
Lecture 001: TuTh 3:30-5pm, 3113 Etcheverry
Discussion 101: Th 5-6pm, 3113 EtcheverryInstructor
Professor James Casey
jcasey@me.berkeley.edu, tel. 510-642-2863
Office hours: MW 4:15-5:45, Tu 5:10-6:00, and by appointment, in 6125 EHGSI
Neil Hodge
nhodge@me.berkeley.edu
Office hours:
Mon, 11:00AM-12:30PM, 130 Hesse
Thu, 11:00AM-12:30PM, 130 Hesse
Administrativa
The weighing of the grades will be approximately as follows:
- Homework: 30%
- Midterm 1: 10%
- Midterm 2: 15%
- Final: 45%
The second midterm has been scheduled for 24-Nov-2009 (the Tuesday before Thanksgiving). It will cover homeworks 4 through 8, with the topics as follows:
- velocity and vorticity
- streamlines and circulation
- rigid motions
- isochoric and irrotational motions
- divergence theorem, Stokes's theorem, Reynold's theorem
- balance of mass
The final will cover homeworks 7 through 9, with the topics as follows:
- method of Lagrange multipliers
- polar decomposition, stretch and rotation tensors
- divergence theorem
- Reynolds's transport theorem, including proof
- balance laws in integral and differential form
- Cauchy stress tensor, Piola-Kirchhoff stress tensors
- invariance requirements under superposed rigid motions of a deformable continuum
- examples of constitutive equations, including inviscid and viscous fluids, nonlinear and linear elastic solids, behavior of materials in simple motions
- power, work, energy, and dissipation
Useful Links
P.M. Naghdi's notes on continuum mechanics
Homework Assignments
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