Syllabus

Uncertainties, errors and their propagation

A link for math relations and more

A publication that is based, in part, on this class which includes chapters on density, pressure, buoyancy, and heat/temperature

Website with links to movies of these hands-on activities (many of which you will do in class)

NIST pages on constants, units and uncertainty;

Nasa's unit converstion guide

orders of magnitude

Videos of basic concepts in physics and biology

Physics, units & continuum mechanics

recorded Lectures from 2015: Lecture 1a, Lecture 1b

Measurement uncertainty with no-slip [PDF]

Quiz 1 [PDF]

Sinking data from whole class

Example rods data

Homework [PDF, DOC]

+Read next week's readings.

Answer to homework 1

Excel spread sheet for rod data

Excel spread sheet for sinking data

Continuum mechanics;

Fluid mechanics;

Biophysics;

Volume, density, mass and static pressure

recorded Lectures from 2015: Lecture 2

Volume, density, mass and static pressure.

Pressure lab

Quiz 2

Homework:

+Read next week's readings.

Pascal's principle;

Hydrostatic pressure;

Simulated manometer;

Calculus-based pressure calculation

Buoyancy and Bernoulli's principle

recorded Lectures from 2015: Lecture 3

Buoyancy lab

Quiz 3

Homework:

+Read next week's readings.

Heat and temperature

recorded Lectures from 2015: Lecture 4

Temperature and heat lab

Quiz 4

Homework:

+Read next week's readings.

Reynold's number and swimming [

recorded Lectures from 2015: Lecture 5

Reynolds Lab [PDF]

Quiz 5

Homework:

+Read next week's readings.

Purcell (1977)-swimming

Padisak et al. (2003)-settling

Final exam

Light and sound

2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015

Exams without answers:

2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015

Properties of water;

More properties

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