I have just taught an undergraduate course on thermodyanmics and written up my lectures as a book. The book is posted as a google doc. If you cannot access the google doc, here is a PDF file of the book. The following paragraphs describe my approach. I hope to hear about your experience with thermodynamics. Please leave your comments below. Please help me hear from more people by forwarding this post. Thank you.
A small steel sphere is launched at 153 m/s through a water tank. This is a nice visualization of cavity expansion ion a fluid. Note the rebound as the sphere bounces back and hits the water tank again.
The movie exceeds the 20Mb limit, sio it is available on youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ihgmp9mlUc8&list=PLTzO8_nj5CcIKB0Qc1ssH…
A. Mahata, M. Asle Zaeem. Size effect in molecular dynamics simulation of nucleation process during solidification of pure metals: investigating modified embedded atom method interatomic potentials. Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering 27 (2019) 085015 (17 pages).
A Postdoctoral Research Associate position is available in the groups of Professor Daniel Robert at the School of Biological Sciences and Dr Isaac Chenchiah at the School of Mathematics. The post is funded for three years and is supported by a grant from the UK BBSRC. The project is entitled “The biophysics of aerial electroreception in arthropods” and seeks to elucidate the biophysical sensory mechanisms subtending electroreception in air.
The AMD-ASME Executive Committee is pleased to announce and congratulate Prof. Shengqiang Cai, Associate Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California San Diego, as the 2020 recipient of the Journal of Applied Mechanics Award. This award includes a certificate and an honorarium.
Biomechanics of Traumatic Brain Injury
We are pleased to announce our first confirmed speakers for the 5th International Conference on BioTribology (ICoBT 2020), which will be held at the beautiful location of Royal Holloway, University of London in Egham, UK, 13-16 September 2020.
Plenary speaker:
Prof. Dr. Stanislav Gorb, Kiel University, Zoological Institute, Functional Morphology and Biomechanics, Germany
Dear all,
The Mechanics of Complex Systems Lab at University of Illinois Urbana Champaign (https://publish.illinois.edu/mcslabuiuc/)is hiring two postdoctoral researchers in the broad area of computational mechanics and its applications to environmental mechanics.
JMPS link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022509619304405?dgcid=raven_sd_aip_email
Arxiv link to full text: https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.08485
An Adaptive Quasi-Continuum Approach for Modeling Fracture in Networked Materials: Application to Modeling of Polymer Networks
