Course Outline-AMES 103A
Introduction to Fluid Mechanics
Summer Session 1: July 1 to August 2, 1996

Time and place: Tuesdays and Thursdays at 5:00-7:50 p.
m., WLH 2113

Course Code: Section ID 264041(534 4364 SUM0970
1911435)

Instructor: Carl H. Gibson, Professor of Engineering
Physics and Oceanography, 575 EB2, 534-3184, email:
cgibson@ucsd.edu. Office hours after class and between
lectures.

Teaching Assistant: Pat Manzi, 657-9190,
jmanzi@sdcc6.UCSD.EDU. Problem session Fridays 5-
8pm WLH 2207.

Textbook: Frank M. White, McGraw-Hill. Fluid
Mechanics, Third Edition 1994, Chapters 1-6. Optional:
An Album of Fluid Motion, 1982, Parabolic Press, by
Milton Van Dyke (photographs of fluids in motion). Both
available in the bookstore.

Grading: Midterm exams given on July 11 and July 25 and
will count 20% each. Weekly homework sets are due at the
start of class the Monday following assignment, or at the
Final for the last set, and count 15%. Two design projects
count 5% each. The final exam is on Friday, August 2, 5-
7:50pm (in WLH 2113), and will count 35%. Discussion of
homework is permitted but copying is strictly forbidden.
Webpage (lectures, notes, announcements): http://www-
acs.ucsd.edu/~ir118

Schedule:

Week Date (Mon./Wed.) Read Chapter* Do
Problems
1 July 2, 5 (makeup) 1,2,3
1.3,12,20,37,45,58,73,75; 2.5,7,17,29,44,86,109

2 July 9, 11 Exam 1 4
3.6,9,38,46,102,114,127,135,153; DP 3.1
Note: in 3.6, take the width of the slot
to be "b"
3 July 16, 18 5
4.1,16,27,40,47,56,62,70,83,85

4 July 23, 25 Exam 2 6 5.6,8,13,22,43,59;
6.2,7,12,17; DP 6.1
(DP 6.1 hints: see problem 3.87,
neglect friction)
5 July 31 Final
Aug. 2, 2113 review 6.18,24,43,78,87,141

* Skim sections with asterisks.