Physics of Continuous Matter

News, links and goodies

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Why  teach continuum physics?
A column by Jerry Gollub on Continuum Mechanics in Physics Education.
In Physics Today vol. 56, issue 12 (December 2003).
 

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Tsunami physics
Translation of an article published in the Danish semipopular journal Kvant (January 2005).
The level of the article is meant to  be last year of high school or first years of college.
 

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Collections of images
Gallery of fluid motion
Gallery of fluid mechanics
eFluids - gallery of flow images
Fluid dynamics picture gallery
 

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Various simulations
Dripping and Rayleigh jet breakup    (requires Apple Quicktime)
 

This page last revised on 16-mar-2005