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15. Recommend a textbook that you think will help students in this course
Theory of Elasticity by Landau and Lifshitz.
http://www.amazon.com/Theory-Elasticity-Third-Theoretical-Physics/dp/075062633X
content:
1 fundamental equations
2 the equilibrium of rods and plates
3 elastic waves
4 dislocations
5 thermal conduction and viscosity in solids
6 mechanics of liquid crystals
ES 240 student fall 2007
My undergraduate and master major is engineer mechanics. I have took several courses about this field, like theory of elasticity and mechanics of materials. But my major during master degree is plant bio-mechanics, especially the role of water surface tension and water transport. So I deeply feel that I need to learn solid mechanics again. That is why I choose this course.