Overall Course Learning Objectives
The Overall Course Learning Objectives are specific skills that you should obtain
by the end of Quarter. If you can do each of the
following activities very well, then you will get an "A" grade.
- Perform analysis of fluid problems in SI and BG units.
Properly convert between SI, BG
and English Engineering units.
- Define basic fluid properties
and obtain numerical values for these properties from reference tables.
- Apply Newton's law of viscosity to analyze simple shear flows
of liquids and gases. Given an analytical expression for the velocity
profile, compute the shear stress on a solid-fluid interface.
- Use the definition of surface tension to predict the height a liquid
will rise in a capillary tube. Use the definition of surface
tension to compute the pressure difference across a
bubble or droplet.
- Convert pressure quantities between units of stress and head.
Convert pressure between absolute and gage units. Know when
gage pressure can be used and when absolute pressure
must be used.
- Use the ideal gas equation to analyze gas behavior. Use the ideal
gas equation to compute a numerical value of gas density given the
pressure and temperature.
- Use the hydrostatic pressure equation to predict pressure
variations in fluid columns. Apply the hydrostatic equation to the
measurement of pressure with u-tube and inclined manometers.
- Apply the hydrostatic pressure equation to the variation of air
pressure in the atmosphere.
- Use engineering formulas derived from the hydrostatic pressure equation to
compute forces and moments on submerged surfaces. Be able to
apply these computations to simple engineering design problems.
- Compute fluid acceleration at a point given a mathematical
formula for the velocity field.
- Identify the limited circumstances under which the Bernoulli
equation applies.
Correctly apply the Bernoulli equation when its use can be justified.
Distinguish cases where the energy equation must be used instead of the
Bernoulli equation.
- Use the integral form of the continuity equation to determine flow rates and velocities
entering and leaving a duct. Compute the average velocity crossing
a surface given an analytical expression for the velocity profile.
- Use control volume analysis to determine forces, flow rates
and flow property changes in free jets and confined flows.
- Apply the steady flow energy equation to determine head loss, work
input/output and other fluid properties of fluids entering and
leaving piping systems. Use the steady flow energy equation to compute
the power input required by a pump, or the power output of a turbine,
when these machines are part of a pipe system.
- Understand operating principles of devices used to measure local
fluid velocity and volumetric flow rate.
- Identify the Reynolds number, Froude number, Mach number,
and compute these numbers given appropriate length scales,
velocities and fluid properties.
- Convert dimensional data to dimensionless form, and give
appropriate definitions for standard dimensionless variables.