8-Fluids

Slideshow: Fluids Slideshow (pre-2024), Fluids Slideshow (2025 - under construction)

Textbook: Chapters 9, 10 & 11 in Mastering Physics (get online code for registration on about page of google classroom)

Objectives

1. Density

   • predict density & design labs to verify prediction (consider manometers, floating objects, and apparent weight for objects that would sink)

   • determine density from experimental data

2. Forces in fluids

   • explain microscopic cause of force related to pressure and the buoyant force (using collisions and momentum changes, unequal pressure on top and bottom)

   • Explain the direction of forces in fluids

   • Explain the electric nature of contact forces in fluids

3. Moving Fluids

   • Use combinations of Bernoulli's equation, P=F/A and/or the continuity equation to make calculations related to moving fluids

   • Explain Bernoulli's equation in terms of conservation of energy.

   • Explain how the continuity equation is an example of conservation of mass. 

Outside Resources

• Mr. Bigler's Moodle site has notes and practice problems for every content area. http://www.mrbigler.com/moodle/course/view.php?id=31

• Mrs. Twu has many video resources on Fluids. https://sites.google.com/site/twuphysicslessons/home/fluids