Properties of materials / P. F. Kelly.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"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.