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MECHANICS OF CONTINUA

EMA 710
Course Description

Tensor analysis; analysis of stress, strain and rate of strain; application of Newtonian mechanics to deformable media; mechanical constitutive equations; field equations of fluid mechanics and elasticity. Knowledge of linear algebra [such asMATH 340] required.

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