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Fluid Dynamics
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Heh, that was my senior self-directed study project in college. I filled up notebooks to prove that water in a gravity-free environment would eventually come to a spherical shape, provided no outside forces changed it. Just one of the many reasons I work in finance.
I did recall my professor telling me to Think Critically. That much I recall, and it was the best two words I heard in four years of college and three more in b-school.
I did recall my professor telling me to Think Critically. That much I recall, and it was the best two words I heard in four years of college and three more in b-school.
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Oh come on......it's not that bad! I had to take a year of it when I got my BS in Aeronautical Engineering.
Now if you want to talk about tough, lets talk about Maxwell's equations and all those crazy electrical laws
Now if you want to talk about tough, lets talk about Maxwell's equations and all those crazy electrical laws
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Hmm, I don't know that I'd say that Maxwell's equations are more difficult than fluid dynamics. We have four simple equations governing every behavior of light, while turbulent flow remains unsolved except by stochastic approximation.
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for as much as i actually admire physics, I hate it.
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who wants to take my exam for me tomorrow? Argh...applying continuity/momentum stuff is hard as hell man
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one of my professor's put it right in another class, but I think it still applies here, when he said that all this stuff took hundreds of years to figure out and we have to learn in a few weeks. LAME
one of my professor's put it right in another class, but I think it still applies here, when he said that all this stuff took hundreds of years to figure out and we have to learn in a few weeks. LAME
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The 'hundreds of yars to figure it out' bit is lame, as that includes all the errors that you don't have to wander into. Admittedly, there is still too little time.
I really enjoyed fluids (at least from a theoretical perspective). I was taught it by this super-energetic Turk who constantly ran around the classroom. Very intense man. I can hear his accent, 'nowa sip condition' even today. The non-Newtonial fluids totally rule -- I did a paper on the interfacial flows of shear-thickening fluids which was some pretty cool phenomena, I must say.
Be comforted; many harder things will come.
~ Huntsman
I really enjoyed fluids (at least from a theoretical perspective). I was taught it by this super-energetic Turk who constantly ran around the classroom. Very intense man. I can hear his accent, 'nowa sip condition' even today. The non-Newtonial fluids totally rule -- I did a paper on the interfacial flows of shear-thickening fluids which was some pretty cool phenomena, I must say.
Be comforted; many harder things will come.
~ Huntsman
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I went to a conference recently, where the head of army research demonstrated the latest work on shear thickening liquids.
He had two pieces of Kevlar, one was impregnated with some nanoparticle enriched liquid that made it shear thickening.
Then he took an ice pick and took a couple of stabs at each piece. The Kevlar with the shear thickening liquid in it was completely unharmed whereas the regular piece looked like swiss cheese.
He had two pieces of Kevlar, one was impregnated with some nanoparticle enriched liquid that made it shear thickening.
Then he took an ice pick and took a couple of stabs at each piece. The Kevlar with the shear thickening liquid in it was completely unharmed whereas the regular piece looked like swiss cheese.
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I dunno about you guys, but ******** is 0.5 light years long.
Garfieldthecat
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I dunno about you guys, but ******** is 0.5 light years long.Originally Posted by tiecollector
I guess you really need bespoke pants, huh?
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Hmm, I don't know that I'd say that Maxwell's equations are more difficult than fluid dynamics. We have four simple equations governing every behavior of light, while turbulent flow remains unsolved except by stochastic approximation.Originally Posted by dusty
True, but basic fluids classes usually are all the theoretical laminar flow problems, using Bernoulli's law and the like. That's all the easy stuff. It was when we hit the more advanced stuff that my head started to implode (boundary layers and heat transfer, I'm looking at you)
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Hydrodynamics was my favorite class. Taking it before E&M made that class a snap too. ( although it took most of the semester to stop calling protons "sources" and electrons "sinks").
Maxwell was a hydrodynamics guy. In E&M at least all flows are inviscid.
Maxwell was a hydrodynamics guy. In E&M at least all flows are inviscid.
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I went to a conference recently, where the head of army research demonstrated the latest work on shear thickening liquids.Originally Posted by ms244
He had two pieces of Kevlar, one was impregnated with some nanoparticle enriched liquid that made it shear thickening.
Then he took an ice pick and took a couple of stabs at each piece. The Kevlar with the shear thickening liquid in it was completely unharmed whereas the regular piece looked like swiss cheese.
Now THAT is cool shear-thickening behavior. Fast response time. Thanks.
I just got owned by my exam.Originally Posted by migo
Well, I hope that's the general consensus then!
~ Huntsman
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