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Courses:

(taught at Tel Aviv U., Dept. of Geophysics & Planetary Sciences)

Continuum Mechanics (2nd year undergraduate curriculum - 0341-2219-01)

Link to Hebrew syllabus (TAU website).

Home assignments:

• 2007-08 (2nd semester - Dr. Eyal Heifetz)
  Exercises: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.
  Solutions: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.
• 2006-07 (2nd semester - Dr. Eyal Heifetz)
  Exercises: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8.
  Solutions: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8.
• 2005-06 (2nd semester - Dr. Eyal Heifetz)
  Exercises: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.
  Solutions: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.
• 2003-04 (2nd semester - Prof. Attay Kovetz)
  Exercises: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.
  Solutions: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.

Guidelines:

• Submission of 70% of the assignemnts is a MUST, in order to take the final exam.
• Check submission list here. Problems should be dealt with as soon as possible!
• Each (+) sign on the assignment list gives you an extra point to your final grade.

Recommended Bibliography:

• Fluid dynamics for physicists (Faber 1995).
• An Introduction to fluid dynamics (Batchelor 1967).
• Fluid dynamics (Landau & Lifshitz 1987).
• Introduction to hydrodynamics stability (Drasin 2002).
• Fluid mechanics (Streeter, Wylie & Bedford 1998).
• Elementary fluid dynamics (Acheson 1990).

Reference material:

• Cylindrical & Spherical coordinates.
• The Euler equation (in Hebrew).
• The Bernoulli theorem (in Hebrew).
• Derivation of pressure (sound) waves (in Hebrew).
• Indexology - A tensor "rough" guide (in Hebrew).
• Equations of motion for incompressible fluid (curvilinear coordinates).
• Soft sediment deformation by Kelvin Helmholtz Instability: A case from Dead Sea earthquakes (Heifetz et al. 2005, EPSL).

Links:

• Fluid Mechanics course (U. of Leeds, Civil Engineering).
• Thermodynamics course (MIT, Aeronautics dept.).

Stellar physics (3rd year undergarduate curriculum - 0341-3245-01).

Link to Hebrew syllabus (TAU website).

Home assignments:

• 2004-05 (1st semester - Prof. Dina Prialnik)
  Exercises: 1, 2.
  Solutions: 1, 2.
• 2003-04 (1st semester - Prof. Dina Prialnik)
  Exercises: 1, 2.
  Solutions: 1, 2.

Guidelines:

• No submission requirements towards the final exam.
• Attendance required at ALL problem-solving classes.

Recommended Bibliography:

• An introduction to the theory of stellar structure and evolution (Prialnik 2000).
• An Introduction to Modern Astrophysics (Caroll & Ostllie 1995).

Links:

• Fluid Mechanics course (U. of Leeds, Civil Engineering).
• Thermodynamics course (MIT, Aeronautics dept.).