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Week
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Lecture slides
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Handouts, reading materials
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Lab
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Lab Data |
Homework
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Video to
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Answers to homework |
Useful Links |
| Background Materials |
Syllabus |
Uncertainties, errors and their propagation
A link for math relations and more
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A
publication that is based, in part, on this class which includes
chapters on density, pressure, buoyancy, and
heat/temperature |
Picasa album of pictures from lab |
Rubric on data
analysis |
If you can't play the movies, download RealPlayer (for Windows or Mac) from here |
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NIST pages on constants, units and uncertainty;
Summary of primary dimensions;
Summary of derived measures |
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1/14/2013 |
Physics, units & continuum mechanics |
Course mechanics, statistics and physics |
Measurement uncertainty with no-slip.
Quiz_1
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Rod data
Sinking data |
Homework I (PDF)
Homework I (doc)
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Fluid Dynamics of Drag, Pt. I.
Get it also here |
Answer |
Continuum mechanics;
Fluid mechanics;
Biophysics;
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1/28/2013 |
Volume, density, mass and static pressure. |
Volume, density, mass
and static pressure. |
Pressure lab
Quiz 2 |
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Homework II (pdf)
Homework II (doc)
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Fluid Dynamics of Drag, Pt. II
Get it also here |
Answer |
Pascal's principle;
Hydrostatic pressure;
Simulated manometer;
Calculus-based pressure calculation |
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2/4/2013 |
Buoyancy |
Buoyancy and Bernoulli's principle |
Buoyancy
lab Quiz 3 |
Data
from lab |
homework III (pdf) homework III (doc)
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Fluid Dynamics of Drag, Pt. III
Get it also here |
Answer |
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2/11/2013 |
Heat |
Heat transfer |
Heat &
temperature lab Quiz 4 |
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Homework IV(pdf)
Homework IV(doc)
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Fluid Dynamics of Drag, Pt. IV
Get it also here |
Answer |
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2/18/2013 |
Re, Stokes' settling & swimming;
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Re and swimming |
Re number lab and
swimming |
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Homework V (pdf)
Homework V (doc)
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Low Reynolds Number Flow
Get it also here |
Answer |
Purcell (1977)-swimming
Padisak et al. (2003)-settling
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2/25/2013 |
Exam
Exam's answer |
Exams with answers:
2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011,
2012
Exams without answers:
2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012
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Lab: Light and sound, vision and hearing. |
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Properties of water;
More properties |