Introduction to Fluid Mechanics
This course is being taught jointly by myself and Jonas Nycander. The advertisement is
here .
This is 7.5 credits course but running at half the speed of usual courses. There is one two-hour
lecture on every Wednesday evening. Alternate lectures has one hour tutorial appended to it.
Course Materials
At this moment we are not totally satisfied with any book.
I enthusiastically recommend the two following lectures:
- You should read these two wonderful lectures
by R.P. Feynman: Flow of dry water and
Flow of wet water .
These two chapters are part of the course materials, they shall be
referred as FL chapter 40 and FL chapter 41 respectively. The Feynman lectures are freely available online.
Instead of a single book, I suggest that you use my lecture notes that
can be found here.
Tentative plans :
I strongly recommend that you read the two lectures by Feynman yourself
before you start the course. This year I am going to use
a set of videos on fluid mechanics. They can be found here
National Science Foundation Fluid Mechanics Series
- What to do before coming to class :
In the document below you can find the videos that are associated with each
lecure. Please watch them before coming to class. For each video there
are a few questiosn that you must answer.
- What to do in class : PAY ATTENTION . You do not need to take notes. The lecture notes contain
(almost) everything that I plan to say in class. So remain awake, ask question and generally engage.
- What to do after the class : Go through the lecture notes again in the light of what was
discussed in class. If you find something to be unclear try to write down exactly what your doubt is.
This process itself may help yourself to answer your question. Try to be regular, physics is best absorbed
in small pieces at a slow rate, trying to grasp a large amount of material in a hurry before the final test is
most likely to give you indigestion.
The following document connects the chapters of the texbook with the day-to-day lectures and also
to the individual chapters of the lecture notes.
Schedule