Physics
Fluid Mechanics
Part of Fluid Mechanics, level 3. About 20 hours of study across the topics below.
Fluid Statics
- Pressure & Pascal's Principlepressure in fluids, gauge vs absolute pressure2.5–5 h
- Buoyancy & Archimedes' Principlefloating, apparent weight, stability2.5–5 h
- Hydrostatic Forceforce on submerged surfaces, dams2.5–5 h
Fluid Dynamics
- Continuity Equationmass conservation, volumetric flow, incompressible flow2.5–5 h
- Bernoulli's Equationenergy conservation in flow, applications (lift, venturi, Torricelli)2.5–5 h
- Viscosity & DragNewtonian viscosity, Poiseuille flow, Reynolds number, terminal velocity2.5–5 h
- Turbulence & Boundary Layers Introlaminar vs turbulent, transition, friction factor2.5–5 h
- Navier-Stokes Equations Introderivation context, simplified solutions, importance2.5–5 h