Semesters taught: Spring 2020
General course information:
PHY 429 Syllabus
PHY 529 Syllabus
Selected course materials:
Note: All of the notes presented below were shared with students during the online phase of the Spring 2020 semester. They are not meant to be polished, final products for the class, but are the product of discussion and the records from our live, synchronous meetings for the class.
Lagrange Point analysis
Fluid dynamics
- Introduction 1
- Introduction 2
- The viscous force
- Flow in a pipe
- Rotating flows
- Venturi tubes
- Supersonic flows
- Introduction to turbulence
Examples of student work:
Economics of tunnel digging
Generalized range maximization problem
Associated work:
Interception and Rendezvous – a peer-reviewed publication (accepted) that emerged from a series of lectures on the rendezvous problem I presented to this special topics class