Courses

This course is designed to introduce candidates to correct techniques and principles related to building personal fitness using weight training. Candidates will also study the effects of aerobic conditioning, techniques for measuring aerobic capacity, participate in aerobic activities, and design a personal aerobic conditioning program.

A course designed for the swimmer that emphasizes the benefits of continuous exercise. Special emphasis is placed on developing strength in different body areas and enhancing the cardiovascular fitness of the student. This class takes the learned aspects of the swimming strokes and applies them to the student’s overall fitness level.

Introduction to subsonic aerodynamics, including properties of the atmosphere; aerodynamic characteristics of airfoils, wings, and other components; lift and drag phenomena; and topics of current interest.

Fundamental concepts in aerodynamics including conservation laws, complex potential theory, thin airfoil theories, finite-wing lifting-line theory, boundary layers and Von Karman momentum integral equations.

Properties of fluids, fluid statics, conservation of mass and momentum, atmospheric properties, two dimensional airfoils, three dimensional wings, drag, and flight performance.

Principles of compressible flow including flows with area changes, friction and heat transfer. Fundamental analysis of aerodynamics and potential flow theory. Correlation of potential flow theory with experimental data.

Theoretical background essential to a fundamental understanding of laminar and turbulent boundary layers and their relations to skin friction and heat transfer.

Demonstration of fundamental aerodynamic principles through wind tunnel testing including comparison of theory to experimental results.

Basic laws of energy that apply in all branches of engineering and science. Properties of matter, state variables, reversible processes, first and second laws of thermodynamics with applications to closed and open systems. Availability of energy and irreversibility.

LAB. 3. Pr. P/C AERO 2200. C or better in AERO 2200. Application of fundamental aerodynamic principles to subsonic and supersonic wind tunnel experiments.