Concord Consortium
Concord Consortium: Molecular Workbench Showcase: Fluid Mechanics and Dynamics
Learn more about fluid mechanics and dynamics concepts through these animations.
Wolfram Research
Wolfram Science World: Bernoulli's Law
In-depth explanation of Bernoulli's Law, including a diagram of a Venturi tube and equations.
University of Colorado
University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Fluid Pressure and Flow
Explore pressure in the atmosphere and underwater. Reshape a pipe to see how it changes fluid flow speed. Experiment with a leaky water tower to see how the height and water level determine the water trajectory. Java required.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: The Viscosity of Motor Oil
The insides of a car engine get very hot when the engine is running. Motor oil lubricates the moving parts, to keep the engine operating smoothly. Learn what happens to motor oil as the engine temperature goes up.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Underground Water Flow and Darcy's Law
This project shows you how to build a simple model system to simulate underground water flow. Underground water flow is important for understanding replenishment of underground aquifers, migration of underground contaminant plumes, and...
American Association of Physics Teachers
Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Lorenz Attractor Periodic Orbits
Simulation of a Lorenz attractor which is shaped like a butterfly. Manipulate the image and observe from all sides as the orbits about two fixed points are drawn.
American Association of Physics Teachers
Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Falling in Fluid Model
Simulation exploring the effects of gravitational, buoyant, and drag forces upon a sphere as it falls through a liquid.
University of Colorado
University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Stretching Dna
Explore stretching just a single strand of DNA using optical tweezers or fluid flow. Experiment with the forces involved and measure the relationship between the stretched DNA length and the force required to keep it stretched.
OpenStax
Open Stax: College Physics: Viscosity and Laminar Flow: Poiseuille's Law
Understand the difference between laminar and turbulent flow and what fluid viscosity is by studying this section of a College Physics textbook. Section includes how to use Poiseuille's law to calculate fluid flow in a tube. Section also...
OpenStax
Open Stax: College Physics: Flow Rate and Its Relation to Velocity
In this section of the textbook learn how to define and calculate flow rate. Also learn the differences and similarities between flow rate and fluid velocity. Section also relates flow rate to processes in the body like calculating flow...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Under Pressure
Students learn about Pascal's law, an important concept behind the engineering of dam and lock systems, such as the one that Thirsty County wants Splash Engineering to design for the Birdseye River (an ongoing hypothetical engineering...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Microfluidic Devices and Flow Rate
Students obtain a basic understanding of microfluidic devices, how they are developed and their uses in the medical field. After conducting the associated activity, they watch a video clip and learn about flow rate and how this relates...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Physics: Fluid Force Integral Calculation
Created to teach students of the 21st century, SOPHIA is bringing the 8 parts of speech straight to your fingertips. Become the commander of your own learning experiences as you take part in this interactive lesson,
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Fluid Dynamics & Its Biological & Medical Applications: Problems
This is a list of 66 problems/exercise to solve covering the content of Chapter 12: Fluid Dynamics & Its Biological & Medical Applications from the AP Physics online Text.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Fluid Dynamics & Its Biological & Medical Applications: Questions
This is a list of 33 questions covering the major concepts presented in Chapter 12: Fluid Dynamics & Its Biological & Medical Applications from the AP Physics online text.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Fluid Dynamics and Its Biological & Medical Applications: Summary
This page provides a summary of the content from each section of Chapter 12: Fluid Dynamics and Its Biological & Medical Applications.
MadSci Network
The Mad Scientist Network: Chemistry/cappillary Action
Capillary action is described. Examples are illustrated. Links to related topics.
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Go With the Flow
This lesson plan is a great way to observe the flow of water. Kids can do this experiment at home by following this easy procedure, complete with pictures.
Dartmouth College
Dartmouth College: Mqed: From Rule of Thumb to Scientific Engineering
The relationship between hydraulics and algebraic relations are investigated in this monograph.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Flow Characteristics of the Crow River
Young scholars make observations of a local river, and then formulate a question. Then, through guided inquiry, construct, conduct, and collect data on a question they wish to research. Students keep a field journal of their...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: The Physics of Human Sperm vs. the Physics of the Sperm Whale
Traveling is extremely arduous for microscopic sperm- think of a human trying to swim in a pool made of other humans. We can compare the journey of a sperm to that of a sperm whale by calculating the Reynolds number, a prediction of how...
Other
Transtronics: Viscosity
This site provides extensive information on viscosity. Different formulas and examples are given with regards to viscosity.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Too Much Pressure!
In this activity, students learn how engineers design faucets. Students will learn about water pressure by building a simple system to model faucets and test the relationship between pressure, area and force. This is a great outdoor...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: How a Faucet Works
Students learn about the underlying engineering principals in the inner workings of a simple household object - the faucet. Students use the basic concepts of simple machines, force and fluid flow to describe the path of water through a...