Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati

Department of Physics
PH201/Advanced Classical Mechanics/2016-17/Tutorial-11/AKSharma
Due date: 15.11.16

1 kt
X 1 , x 2 X 2 , x3 X 3 .
1 kt 0
(a) Show that the reference time is t = t0.
(b) Find the velocity field in spatial coordinates.
(c) Show that the velocity field is identical to that of the following motion:
x1 (1 kt ) X 1 , x 2 X 2 , x3 X 3 .

1. Consider the motion: x1

2. Consider the motion: x1 t X 1 , x 2 X 2 , x3 X 3 , where the material

coordinates Xi designate the position of a particle at t = 0.
(a) Determine the velocity and acceleration of a particle in both a material and a
spatial description.
(b) If the temperature field in spatial description is given by = Ax1, what is its
material description? Find the material derivative of using both descriptions of
the temperature.
(c) Do part (b) if the temperature field is = Bx2.
3. The displacement field of a continuum body is given by:
x1 X 1 , x 2 X 2 AX 3 , x3 AX 2 X 3 where A is constant.
(a) Determine the displacement vector components in both the material and spatial
form.
(b) Determine the displaced location of material particles which originally comprises
1
the plane circular surface x1 0, x 2 X 22 X 32
if A = 1/2.
1 A2

4. Consider the motion x1 X 1 , x 2 X 12 t 2 X 2 , x3 X 3 , where Xi are the material

coordinates.
(a) At t = 0, the corners of a unit square are at A(0, 0, 0), B(0, 1, 0), C(1, 1, 0) and D(1,
0, 0). Determine the position of ABCD at t = 1 and sketch the new shape of the
square.
(b) Find the velocity and the acceleration in a material description.
(c) Find the spatial velocity field.
5. Consider the motion x = X + AX, where A is a small constant tensor (i.e., whose
components are small in magnitude and independent of Xi). Show that the infinitesimal
strain tensor is given by E = (A + AT)/2.
6. At time t, the position of a particle, initially at (X1, X2, X3), is defined by
x1 X 1 kX 3 , x 2 X 2 kX 2 , x3 X 3 . Find the components of the strain tensor.