CHAPTER 1
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STORAGE AND FLOW OF FLUIDS
Overview      Phenomena      Activities      Readings      Materials







 

What this chapter is all about…

 
 

Fluid storage and fluid flow provide the perfect material for a discussion of physical processes from a systems perspective. Quantities of fluid are actors in a story involving pressure differences as driving force, capacitive effects, and resistive and intertial processes in flows. Learn about fluid systems in simple settings, and apply your practical skills to fascinating cases such as the flow of blood in mammals, or stormwater management in a city.

 

 

Phenomena and applications…

 
 

Equilibration in communicating tanks and balloons. Accounting for liquids (law of balance). Fluid pressure, pressure differences, and circuits. Storing fluids in tanks. Laminar and turbulent flow. Filling tanks with pumps. Investigating a windkessel. A chain of tanks (a model of diffusion). Inertial effects (induction) in fliuid flow: starting currents; fluid oscillations and waves. The blood circulation system of mammals. And more…