FIZ 114E - Physics of Continuous Media

Course Objectives

1. Applying Newton’ s laws and conservation theorems to analyze the gravitation problem
2.Fundamentals of waves and oscillations
3.An introduction to continuum mechanics
4. A basic knowledge of thermodynamics

Course Description

Gravitation, Periodic motions, Free oscillations, Forced oscillations and resonance, Standing
and propagating waves, Fluid mechanics, Sound, Temperature and heat transfer, First law of
thermodynamics, Second law of thermodynamics