The first tutorial for this course will be on Friday, February 10 at 13:05 in Hall D in the Arts building.
Note: Details on the assignments and on the material covered appear on the Weekly Schedule. We will roughly cover the module
content posted on the math department's webpage.
A more accurate Weekly Schedule will appear
gradually
as the course evolves.
There will be significant overlap with this set of lecture notes by Charles Nash .
I will also be making my own lecture notes available.
If you discover any errors in the notes, or if you think something is
missing or just not clear, please let me know
(joost-dot-slingerland-at-thphys-dot-nuim-dot-ie).
The following books may be useful for supplementary
reading (though not easy!):
# Title: An Introduction to Fluid
Dynamics
# Author: G.K. Batchelor.
# Paperback: 635 pages
# Publisher: Cambridge University Press (February 15, 2000)
# ISBN-10: 0521663962
# ISBN-13: 978-0521663960
# Title: Fluid Mechanics, Second Edition: Volume 6 (Course of
Theoretical Physics)
# Authors: L. D. Landau and E. M. Lifshitz
# Paperback: 552 pages
# Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann (January 15, 1987)
# ISBN-10: 0750627670
# ISBN-13: 978-0750627672
Exam and Continuous Assessment
There will be a one and a half hour written examination which counts for 80% of the mark. Continuous Assessment (that is, hand-in exercises), make up the remaining 20%.
There will be homework exercises to hand in roughly once per two weeks.
These will be marked and the results will count for 20% of the final
mark, but only if this raises your overall mark.
Please make sure your homework shows some cohesion as
well as your name and student number.
I encourage you to work on the homework in small groups; it is important to
learn to communicate about the subject. However, please make sure you do
fully understand the solutions to the problems and please write them up
from scratch, in your own words.
Doing exercises is very important - you can't really learn this subject (or almost any subject in mathematical physics) without "getting your hand dirty". You will also find that this course is a lot more enjoyable if you keep up with the exercises. Finally. please note that in the past few years, there has been a very strong correlation between handing in homework and attending tutorials on the one hand and doing well in the exam on the other.
For this week's homework, see the Weekly Schedule
2008: please look here, (many thanks to Paul Watts for
providing this resource)
2009: please look here.
2011: please look here.
For old exams, look here.
If you have questions, comments or suggestions for the lectures and
the webpage, then please send me an email.
I can't promise to make everybody happy, but I will try.