Imperfections in Crystalline Solids
Wei Cai and Bill Nix, of Stanford University, have just published a new textbook Imperfections in Crystalline Solids. You can look at the first chapter at the website of the Cambridge University Press.
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Cartesian product
These notes are a part of the notes on linear algebra.
Set
These notes are a part of the notes on linear algebra.
Number
These notes are a part of the notes on linear algebra.
A new review article on stretchable and reconfigurable electronics
Muhammad Hussain leads a dynamic group at KAUST working on the development of stretchable and reconfigurable electronics. He came to the field with a background of semiconductors. Last year he gave an Applied Mechanics Colloquium at Harvard. Students and faculty were all deeply impressed by the creativity and range of his work.
Toughness due to hysteretic deformation
These fragments of notes are intended for a course on fracture mechanics, but I have always run out of time, and have never managed to go over them in class. Some of the ideas are mentioned in various parts of the class. I have also listed refeences and review articles.
Linear form
These notes are part of my notes on linear algebra. I believe that textbooks of linear algebra give a bad definition of linear form. The last section of the notes explain why it is bad. I also give examples of linear form everyday life and from physics. Given the vector space of distance, both force and electric field are dual spaces of the space of distance. They are distict dual spaces of the space of distance, and they are not dual spaces to each other.
Linear Algebra
I’ll post sections of notes on linear algebra when they are ready.
Gibbs's Paper II: equilibrium, stability, metastability, phases, critical points, and exergy
Paper II. A METHOD OF GEOMETRICAL REPRESENTATION OF THE THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES OF SUBSTANCES BY MEANS OF SURFACES, 1873
Gibbs: Thermodynamics
I bought this reprint by the Ox Bow Press in 1990s. The quality of print is excellent. The book collects all papers of Gibbs on thermodynamics. I’ll focus on the three main papers: Paper I (pp. 1-32), Paper II (pp. 33-54), and Paper III (pp. 55-371). Papers I and II are short and fundamental. Paper III is very long; it applied the basic approach developed in the short papers to a large number of important phenomena. Over the years I have returned to the book many times, and will continue to do so in coming years. I'll keep updating this review.