Pictured: Wind turbine farm in Allamont Pass, California, from National Geographic

AME 332: Fluid Mechanics Laboratory

Course Information

Syllabus: Spring 2002
Notes on first part, Units 1-4
Notes on second part, Units 5-8
template.tex This important file should be used as a template which you must follow closely in preparing your reports.
The file template.tex will ask for the following files when you compile it. Download these into your local directory.

fig1.eps This figure file is needed when you compile template.tex. Right click to save it.
fig2.eps This figure file is needed when you compile template.tex. Right click to save it.
fig3.eps This figure file is needed when you compile template.tex. Right click to save it.

latex template.tex [This does most of the work and creates the file template.dvi (dvi=device independent) along with many other files]
dvips -o template.ps template.dvi [This creates a postscript file template.ps, which is also very useful and can be viewed using "ghostview template.ps"]
distill template.ps [This converts the postscript file into a .pdf file]
acroread template.pdf [This lets you view the .pdf file, which works on a wide variety of machines.]

template.pdf This is what you should get after LaTeXing template.tex, using dvips to convert it to postscript, and using distill to convert it to pdf.
You may also find the pair of files below to be useful as well.

sample.tex Another .tex file with some more examples of how to format things. Right click to save.
sample.figure.eps A sample figure which is called upon by sample.tex. Right click to save.

TeXcookbook.pdf A short document which has a lot of special mathematics symbols in LaTeX format.
error.pdf A short note on error analysis.
simple_plot.m A short matlab .m file that gives a simple plot with error bars and a straight line curve fit.
leastsquare.pdf A short description of a robust way to use straightforward linear algebra techniques to get least squares curve fits to a variety of general functions which are linear in the curve fit parameters.
External fluid mechanics links
Midterm exam with solution
5.10.2002 final grades.pdf

Pictured: Kelvin-Helmholtz instability in cloud formation