Wednesdays, 3.10 to 4-ish pm, 2220P Hoover Hall, except where
indicated
· Presentations by me
and you. Click on the topic in the table below to get to the slides.
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Date |
Meeting topic |
Presenter |
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1 |
August 26 |
Summer review, safety updates |
All |
|
2 |
September 9 |
Nicola |
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|
3 |
September 25 |
Approaches for modeling a variety of composite microstructures |
Connor |
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4 |
October 2 |
The Kramers-Kronig relation |
Nicola |
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5 |
October 7, 4 pm, 2240A |
Dielectric spectroscopy
of PMMA-MMT |
Weixing |
|
6 |
November 6 |
Aging
mechanisms in Nylon 6 |
Rui |
|
7 |
November 13 |
Impedance spectroscopy of ionic solids |
Nathan |
|
8 |
December 4 |
Measuring matrix permittivity of
carbon-fiber composites |
Bob |
|
9 |
December 18 |
Strain-dependent permittivity changes
in PTFE |
Shuaishuai |
1. Omar, Elementary Solid State Physics, Chapter 8 “Dielectric and optical properties of solids”.
2. Ashcroft & Mermin, Solid State Physics, Chapter 27 “Dielectric properties of insulators”.
The objective of this class is to reinforce some fundamentals that we
all should know, as well as introducing some specific advanced topics. Do
review the fundamentals prior to your oral examinations!