Comments | dlakelan: Frustration with solid mechanics

dlakelan

Frustration with solid mechanics

Oct 18, 2008 21:54

I'm studying solid mechanics in tensor form in class... The class is very frustrating because it's very algebraic, and at the same time, not at all careful about the mathematics... so I have to both see a lot of tensor algebra that doesn't make much sense, and I'm not really sure what the right concepts are because the definitions and soforth are ( Read more... )

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Too archaic for me... chaset1 October 26 2008, 14:32:11 UTC

but does that mean you're doing the distance education thing? You'd think they'd update their infrastructure by now. I also recall the very fuzzy, very low-res lecture notes they used for netcast.
It was usually better to wait until the lecture is published in PDF and watch the recorded lecture.

My undergrad mechanics only lightly touched on tensors. At this point, I remember nothing.

Re: Too archaic for me... dlakelan October 26 2008, 19:23:45 UTC

Hi Chase,

Yes, I am doing the DEN thing for this class. It's only offered as a DEN class. My other two classes are regular on campus lectures.

I noticed that it was better to wait for the PDF and then watch the low res version. but honestly in this case... the class is very unhelpful.

I went to my advisor friday, and he loaded me up with alternative books. One of which seems to be quite good (classical and computational solid mechanics).