Field Theories in Materials Science

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Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours. Introduce a range of field theory concepts for quantifying material behaviors; a comprehensive generic treatment of field theories for continuous media; concepts of fields and field variables beginning with transportable quantities (mass, electric charge, momentum, energy, etc.) and their balance equations; constitutive relations (notably for elasticity, electromagnetism, diffusion and other transport phenomena); linear response theory for examples such as Maxwell’s equations, deformation and motion of a continuum. Prerequisites: Grade of C or better in MSEN 320 or AERO 306 ; or approval of instructor.