Syllabus

Course Description

Heat most any material enough and it begins to flow. Whether it becomes a gas, a fluid, or a plasma, the resulting flows are all governed by the same underlying physical principles and mathematics. And yet, despite this underlying theoretical coherence, microscopic details of the motions and observations of fluids are marvelously diverse. This course will explore the conceptual coherence of fluid dynamics and touch on a few of the many applications to oceanography, meteorology, astrophysics, geophysics, biophysics, chemistry, and engineering. One additional hour of class recitation time will be scheduled in consultation with enrolled students.