Teaching Mineral Physics

by Pamela C. Burnley, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Below are links to a set of web pages that can be used to teach mineral physics topics. Each page contains an introduction to its topic, a problem set, a list of additional literature, and related links.

Instrumentation

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A generalized diamond anvil cell assembly with components annotated after Burnley and Schmidt (2006)

Multi-Anvil Apparatus Tutorial (beta version)

Diamond Anvil Cell (DAC) Tutorial (beta version)

High Pressure Deformation Experiments (beta version)

Raman and IR

Ultrasonic Measurements (beta version)

Brillouin Spectroscopy (beta version)

Mossbauer

Synchrotron Facilities (beta version)

Topics and Techniques

Synchrotron Diffraction (beta version)

Tensors: Stress, Strain, and Elasticity Tutorial (under construction)

Thermodynamics

NRIX / HERIX

Equations of State (beta version)

Phase Equilibria

Diffusion and Partitioning