Field Theories in Materials Science

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Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours. Field theory concepts to understand and quantify a wide range of material behaviors, including, transportable quantities; development of constitutive relations; linear response theory and Maxwell’s equations; deformation and motion of a continuum; Brownian motion; self-assembly and patterning within reaction-diffusion formulations; thermal and ion/charge transport; acoustic waves in solids; Fourier’s equations. Prerequisites: Basic courses in materials science; graduate classification.