Cheg 355 - Lecture Notes - Sept. 9, 2003
Announcements
Don't forget to look over the notes on index notation given here.
Also, by request we've officially moved the start time of the class up by 25
minutes to 10:35am. There's a class in the room which ends at 10:25, but that
shouldn't be a problem.
Class notes
Scanned Notes
The main points of the lecture were
Goals:
After this class you should be able to:
- Derive the continuity equation and use it to solve for the average velocity in a pipe system.
Reading
- The class notes.
- BS&L chapter 2, WWWR chapter 3
- Continue working through the section Dynamics/Newton's Second Law on the multimediaCD.
Additional Readings:
In class today we demonstrated "Hero's Fountain", an example of hydrostatics
which goes back to Hero of Alexandria over two millenia ago - fluids research has been
going on a long time! To learn more about this early fluid mechanic read the
translation of his work from Greek given
here. The Editor's
and Translator's Prefaces are also interesting.
Demonstration:
Homework Exercises (Due Sept. 16, 2003)
problem set 3
solution
David.T.Leighton.1@nd.edu