Apr 30, 2026  
2011-2012 UMass Dartmouth Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2011-2012 UMass Dartmouth Undergraduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]

PHY 315 - Fluid Mechanics Supplement

1 credits
1 hour lecture
Prerequisites: PHY 115, MTH 211 or 213
Corequisites: MNE 332
To enhance the background of physics students who take MNE 332. Specific topics include distributed force and moment analysis for applications to fluid statics, thermodynamic principals applied to fluid mechanics, Coriolis force in rigid bodies and in the ocean-atmospheric system, and basic force balance for the ocean and the atmospheric flows.