Spring 2009

These are slides of poroelasticity and diffusion in elastic solids for final presentation based on ES241 notes.

These slides are based on an on-going paper written by Wei Hong, Xuanhe Zhao and Zhigang Suo and Suo's talk in ucsb.

Attached is my final presentation.

Here are the slides for my final presentation for ES 241.  During the presentation, a few suggestions were made, which I plan to follow up on.  Please check back here or subscribe for updates.

Here are some slides I made on the subject of "Pressure and Chemical Potential" for the final meeting of Prof. Zhigang Suo's ES 241 class in the Spring of 2009.

Please see the attached slides on electric potential, deformation and polarization.

Please see attachment for ES 241 final presentation on heat conduction and the Boltzmann distribution.

Please see attachment for ES241 final presentation--general theory of finite deformation

Update on 23 May 2009:  I'm adding links to the slides as they are uploaded.

The final exam will take the form of a pedagogical workshop. We have 8 students taking the class for credit. I have divided the lecture notes into 8 parts as follows.

These notes are part of a graduate course on advanced elasticity.

Notes prepared for Statistical Mechanics and Advanced Elasticity.

Attached are the slides and notes for a course on engineering thermodynamics.  

So far we have been mainly concerned with systems of a single independent variable: energy (node/4878). We now consider a system of two independent variables: energy and volume. A thermodynamic model of the system is prescribed by entropy as a function of energy and volume.

The partial derivatives of the function give the temperature and the pressure. This fact leads to an experimental procedure to determine the function for a given system.

The laws of ideal gases and osmosis are derived. The two phenomena illustrate entropic elasticity.

The notes are part of the course on advanced elasticity. 

The notes are attached.  See related notes on thermodynamics.