• Mechanical and bulk properties of matter; stress and strain
• stretching/compression
• shear (=sideways)
• volume deformation
• Bulk properties are determined by averages
• Ex: density
• Ex: pressure
• Aside: How does an altimeter work?
• Hydrostatics
• Ex: gauge pressure (water tower)
• Ex: buoyant force
(iceberg)
• Ex: floating without water
• Ex: density determination for a coin ("Eureka!")
• Hydrodynamics
• Ex: blood flow in aorta
• Bernoulli's equation
• Ex: a straw atomizer (see this hint)
• Torricelli's theorem
• Ex: Disaster at Sayano-Shushensk Hydro Power Station, 18.08.2009
• viscous flow, e.g. velocity distribution in a pipe
• Ex: an injection
• Ex: running on water, a hoax or the real thing?
• Low Reynolds number and onset of turbulence
• Ex: blood flow through aorta
• A white blood cell chasing a bacterium
• Life at low Reynolds number, by E.M.Purcell