Taught in a tutorial manner to help acquaint students with the research activities of various laboratories at Rice and the Texas Medical Center. Graduate standing or instructor's approval. Also offered as Bioe 551. 3.00 Fall 99 Interfacial tension, wetting and spreading, contact angle hysteresis, interaction between colloid particles, stability of interfaces, flow and transport near Interfaces. An advanced treatment of the thermodynamics of pure and multicomponent systems.
Topics range from classical thermodynamics to a discussion of modern developments.
3.00 Fall 99 Vector Spaces. Existence and uniqueness of solutions for linear equations. Numerical solution of linear equations. Gauss elimination, band matrices, finite differences. Inner products, norms, orthogonality.