2006 SBS 481 Web Materials (pdf files only)

Week		Lecture slides	Handouts & background	Lab & Homework Assignments	Feedback
1		1.Course goals and approaches; 2.Reynolds numbers	Syllabus Course Mechanics Primary Dimensions and SI Units Derived Quantities and their Units	Granular materials	Comments Possibly useful reference
2		3.Flume basics 4.Boundary layers	Viscosity and density BBL terms	Body Re	Comments
3		5.Stokes' and Bernoulli's laws	4.5 Where we are now and what happens next	Bluff bodies in a boundary layer	Comments
4		6.Flow microenvironments & 7.Sediment transport, combined		Drag, thrust, lift and streamlining	Comments
5		No new lectures	Review sheets; Previous midterm (with answers)	Flow microenvironments (the assignment was at the end of last week's handout); Sediment transport (please read; do only for extra credit)	Comments
6		Mid-Term Exam, open book but closed notes			Comments
7		8.Solid & granular mechanics and the design of burrowers		Burrowing in gelatin and mud (no assignment due, completed in lab)
8		9.Suspension feeding		Suspension feeding	Comments
9		10.Diffusion in 1-3D 11.Bacterial strategies		Stirring and mixing
10		12.Advection & Diffusion: larger osmotrophs & animals with guts	Review sheets; Previous midterm (plus answers)
11		Mid-Term Exam, open book but closed notes			Comments
12		Thanksgiving Break
13		13.Getting information 14.Using information
14		15.Unsteady flows 16. Swimming		Unsteady flow, waves and Froude numbers
15		17.Pumps & miscellany	Review sheets; Final from 2004 (with answers)
16		Final, open book but closed notes

Also, see the useful links page. In order to allow annotation, I have not placed the links in the tabular format used above for class materials. It adds new material relevant to weekly topics, but many of the early listed links remain relevant but are not repeated, so please revisit them frequently.