PH306 Continuum Mechanics (Spring 2017-18)
Instructor name Prof Raghunath Chelakkot Course Type: Honours / Elective Pre-requisites: None, but knowing Rigid Body Dynamics and Tensors does help. These are covered briefly in lectures too. Course Content: Lagrangian formalism Rigid Body Dynamics Tensors Fluid dynamics Elasticity Books: Goldstein, Landau for elasticity part Lectures: Attendance is not considered. The prof teaches on the blackboard, except for the first lecture. The class sometimes becomes boring but the concepts introduced are interesting. Many arguments seem hand wavy especially in the elasticity part but that's not the prof's inability to explain, but the theory in that domain is itself developed on many assumptions historically. Assignments: No assignments. Tutorials are just right in difficulty level and are very relevant for the exams. Exams and Grading: Quiz 1- 15%, Quiz 2- 15%, midsem 30 and endsem 40. Grading of exam papers is done very lenien...