How hard would it be to take fluid mechanics with out taking statics or dynamics ?
May 1st, 2010
plecostomusmodel asked:
I need to take fluids and will be allowed to, without statics or dymamics; dont ask why.
How hard will this be? Is complex calculus constantly needed. I am good at math but dont remember much calc. I will be taking this class and 2 others a top top top top engineering school, how frightend should I be.
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I need to take fluids and will be allowed to, without statics or dymamics; dont ask why.
How hard will this be? Is complex calculus constantly needed. I am good at math but dont remember much calc. I will be taking this class and 2 others a top top top top engineering school, how frightend should I be.
Article by SMANSA
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Be afraid, be very afraid. Several decades ago, I took statics and dynamics in the same semester and was totally shaken in my conviction that engineering was what I wanted to do.
You should talk to the instructor and ask how statics and dynamics feeds into fluids. I consider fluid dynamics to be more complicated than either of those because the materials at least stay in the same relationship, unlike fluids. Try to get a feel for what you will lack if you don’t take them.
I don’t think fluids is directly dependent on either statics or dynamics. However, I do think you will constantly use calculus.
If the class is Fluid Mehanics, then you may have a hard time with it if you haven’t studied statics, however if they thought that you needed to have the statics course I’m sure they would tell you.
Fluid mechanics does include sections where you are required to find forces and moments and resultant loads on submerged objects.
It’s a lot of calculus, you better know that. But statics, not so much; simple shear stress will be need to known, but you can learn that in 10 mins.
Very interesting question. What you must know is that at almost every university statics as well as dynamics is needed for fluid mechanics. From what I have read fluid mechanics is broken into fluid statics and fluid dynamics. It can be extremely useful to have the special cases that extend much further than physics 1 from those courses. If you are extremely smart you could do it, but I wouldn’t recommend it. I also think fluid mechanics has differential equations (Navier Stokes equations) in it, although I think if anything you will be plugging in the equations after they are derivated. A tip I have for you is to look through a fluid mechanics book like Introduction to Fluid Mechanics (wiley) and see if you can ***** the problems. I have noticed that the civil engineering fluid mechanics at my school, which is probably almost a carbon copy of the fluid mechanics in ME only requires physics 1 though. Kinda weird. In most cases though it is pretty universal that fluid mechanics requires up to Dynamics and Diff EQ, although the extent of knowledge used in the subjects might not need to be recalled all the time.