PHYS 4100 Solid State Physics

Elasticity, stress, strain, plasticity, waves, and fractures in solids, liquids, gases and crystals.

Registration Name

Materials

Lecture Hours

3

Lab Hours

0

Credits

3

Prerequisite

PHYS 2120 with a grade of C or higher

Student Learning Outcomes

Upon the completion of this course, students will be able to demonstrate the following outcome-based learning skills:

1. Know how Hooke’s law applies to material deformations and extended to viscoelastic, plastic, and composite materials models.
2. Apply concepts involving buckling, pressure vessels, shear and torsion to solve problems.
3. Apply stress and strain tensors to derive Mohr’s circle and solve more complicated composite structure problems.
4. Understand free body diagrams, distributed loads, and the successive integration method of solving problems of cantilevered beams and plates.