Properties of Materials

Content: "Tidings" of rigidity's breakdown --
Elastic properties of solids --
Elastic solids in series and parallel --
Fluid statics --
Eureka! --
Fluid dynamics: flux --
Bernoulli's equation --
No confusion, it's just diffusion --
Baby, it's viscous outside --
Gas gas gas --
Through the earth and back --
Introduction to simple harmonic oscillation --
SHO time --
Springs in series and parallel --
SHO: kinematics, dynamics, and energetics --
Damped oscillation: qualitative --
Damped oscillation: explicitly --
Forced oscillations --
Impedance and power --
Resonance --
The first wave --
Wave dynamics and phenomenology --
Linear superposition of waves --
Linear superposition of rightmoving harmonic waves --
Standing waves --
Transverse waves: speed and energetics --
Speed of longitudinal waves --
Energy content of longitudinal waves --
Inhomogeous media --
Doppler shifts --
Huygens' principle, interference, and diffraction --
Say hello, wave goodbye --
Optics --
Mirror mirror --
Refraction --
Through a glass darkly --
Temperature and thermometry --
Heat --
Convective and conductive heat flow --
Radiative heat flow --
More radiation --
Laws of thermodynamics 0 and 1 --
The first law of thermodynamics --
First law encore --
Isotherms and adiabats --
Thermodynamic cycles and heat engines --
The second law of thermodynamics --
Entropy musings and the third law --
The canonical ensemble --
Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution derived, Dulong and Petit revisited