GEOSCI 426
Mineral Physics Professor Lars Stixrude |
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Introduction.
Geological Context
Bonding and Structure of Earth Materials.
Packing Fraction, Ionic Model, Pauling's Rules, Structure of the Atom, Bonding in Condensed Matter
Thermodynamics.
Generalized Force, Displacement and Material Property, Conjugate Variables,Thermodynamic Potentials, Internal Energy, Legendre Transformations, Fundamental Relations, Maxwell Relations, Thermodynamic Square
Equations of State. Polytropes, Finite Strain, Birch-Murnaghan EOS, Systematics, Thermal Correction, Hugoniot, First Principles EOS
Lattice Vibrations. Monatomic Lattice, Dispersion, Density of States, Debye Approximation, Specific Heat, Quasiharmonicity, Thermodynamics
Electronic Structure. Ions or electrons? Atoms, Molecules, Solids: Metallic, Covalent, Ionic, Density Functional Theory
Elasticity.
Tensors, Stress, Strain, Elastic Moduli, Equations of Motion, Elasticity of Composites, Thermoelasticity
Phase Equilibria. Gibss free energy, Chemical Potential, Phase Rule, Classius-Clapeyron Equation
Liquids. Structure, Properties, Mantle Melting
Transport Properties. Deformation, Mass Diffusion, Dislocations, Thermal Conduction, Electrical Conduction
Earth Models. Seismology, Geotherm, Mineralogy, The Core