PHYS 443Continuum Mechanics
- Faculty
- Science
- Offered
- Winter
- Credit
- 0.5
- Last listed
- 1994–95
No longer offered. It’s in Waterloo’s scanned calendars from 1977–78 to 1994–95 (before that, 1967–68 to 1976–77 used the number for Hydrodynamics and Classical Field Theory); the 1995–96 to 2023–24 calendars are on ucalendar.
General description of continuum behaviour: stress, strain, rate of strain, constitutive relations, equations of motion, effect of symmetry; thermodynamics, Elastic media: Hooke's law, simple problems, elastic waves. Fluids: Classification, perfect fluids, Newtonian fluids, boundary layers, turbulence, Viscoelasticity, plastoelasticity. Applications to various systems. 16:117
As printed in the 1986–87 to 1994–95 calendars, read by OCR; the scanned page is the original. Later calendars (1995–96 on) aren’t on uwloo.
Requirements, as last listed
Prereq: PHYS 364/365
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- Undergraduate Calendar, 1995–96If it ran past 1994–95, on ucalendar
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- WClassesPast sections back to 2004, and who taught them
In the scanned calendars
How it read in each calendar from 1967–68 to 1994–95, newest first. The text is OCR of the scanned pages; years whose wording matches are shown once, from the clearest scan. Each year links to its page on uwloo and to that page of the scanned PDF.
1986–87 to 1994–95 9 calendars
General description of continuum behaviour: stress, strain, rate of strain, constitutive relations, equations of motion, effect of symmetry; thermodynamics, Elastic media: Hooke's law, simple problems, elastic waves. Fluids: Classification, perfect fluids, Newtonian fluids, boundary layers, turbulence, Viscoelasticity, plastoelasticity. Applications to various systems.
16:117
Prereq: PHYS 364/365
Offered Winter · 3 class hours a week · 0.5 credit
- 1986–87 PDF p. 414
- 1987–88 PDF p. 428
- 1988–89 PDF p. 426
- 1989–90 PDF p. 449
- 1990–91 PDF p. 427
- 1991–92 PDF p. 435
- 1992–93 PDF p. 427
- 1993–94* PDF p. 430
- 1994–95* PDF p. 433
* Listed that year without a description, or as not offered.
1977–78 to 1985–86 9 calendars
General description of continuum behaviour: stress, Strain, rate of strain, constitutive relations, equations of motion, effect of symmetry, thermodynamics. Elastic media: Hooke’s law, simple problems, elastic waves, Fluids: classification, perfect fluids. Newtonian fluids, boundary layers, turbulence. Viscoelasticity, plastoelasticity. Applications to various systems.
Prereq: Phys 364-365
Offered Winter · 3 class hours a week · 0.5 credit
1969–70 to 1976–77 8 calendars
Another title: Classical Field Theory, probably a different course under the same number (or a misread scan).
An introduction with applications in the areas of elasticity and hydrodynamics. (The electromagnetic field is discussed in Physics 441). Topics covered are the conservation laws, field equations, boundary conditions. Equations of state, invariance, material symmetry. Methods of solution, application to fluid and elastic systems with simple geometries. Prerequisites: Physics 364*-365* or equivalent
3 lectures, Winter term
1967–68 to 1968–69 2 calendars
Another title: Hydrodynamics, probably a different course under the same number (or a misread scan).
Stress tensor, kinematics of strain, Navier-Stokes equations, hydrostatics, streamline flow, vorticity, waves, viscous flow. 3 lectures, second term.