Subject of rheology, linear vector functions, gradients, tensors, surface vector, divergence balance, affine transformation and tensor algebra. Simple shear and shear flow, simple shear kinematics, shear dynamics of elastic material, elastic materials and viscous liquids, kinematics of stationary simple shear flow, dynamics of simple shear flow of viscous liquids, shear response of viscoelastic materials. Viscosity and its measurement, viscosity functions of nonnewtonian liquids, thixotropy, dilatancy and antithixotropy. Linear viscoelasticity, basic tests of linear viscoelasticity: relaxationa and creep, mathematical foundations of linearity: Boltzmann's superposition principle, basic material functions of linear viscoelasticity for shear movements, relaxation spectra, influence of inertia on complex viscosity measurement, viscometric normal tensions.