This class provides an overview of the physical properties of ice and how they are related through the structure of the water molecules and their arrangement in ice.

These topics will be covered:

Structure of the water molecule; hydrogen bonds

Equilibrium thermodynamics: Phase diagram for ice, crystal structure of ordinary ice

Other phases of ice (high pressure, low temperature) and their occurrence in the Solar System

Metastable phases: formation of ice from the vapor and from the liquid.

Optical properties of ice in ultraviolet, visible, infrared

Elastic and thermal properties, lattice vibrations

Surface effects and polycrystallinity:

The ice-vapor interface

Grain boundaries, veins and nodes

Defect Structures: protonic and molecular defects, dislocations, and their effects:

Crystal growth from vapor and from liquid

Habit evolution

Electrical properties

Mechanical properties of single crystals

Chemistry of ice:

Isotopic composition

Uptake and migration of impurities.

Recommended textbook: "Ice Physics" by V.F. Petrenko and R.W. Whitworth, Oxford University Press, 1999.

The first class meeting will be Tuesday 7 January, 10:30-12:00 in ATG 406. Subsequent meetings will be scheduled at times to avoid conflicts for the registered students. Interested students should contact Stephen Warren or Marcia Baker prior to the first class meeting if possible.

Prof. Stephen Warren, ATG 524, 543-7230, sgw@atmos.washington.edu
Prof. Marcia Baker, ATG 326, 685-3799, marcia@geophys.washington.edu