Exam One Study Guide

Mr. Fs Applied Fluid Mechanics Course

Date: Friday, 23 September 2016
Time to complete: roughly 1 hour
If absent: must be taken the day student returns, after
school. No exceptions.

Topics to review from your notes and/or assignments:

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What is science? Definition(s) of science.

The scientific method: why we use it, how it is used
How to properly format an experimental question, purpose, hypothesis
The three types of hypothesis (worksheet)
Basic statistics investigated and how they are used in data analysis: average,

median, mode, standard deviation. Why is each important?

6. The air skimmer project: why each of the skimmers had to be closely designed in
order to make one data set? What physics allowed the skimmer to travel along
the floor and why some traveled further than others? Explain how lift works.
Know how millimeters (mm), centimeters (cm), meters (m), and kilometers (km)
are related by their powers of 10. Example: 1m = 1000mm, 1m = 100 cm, 1m =
1/1000 km. Be comfortable with this from the measuring portion of the air
skimmer activity.
7. Bridge project and the scientific method. Basics of bridge construction and the
physics of force dissipation. How tension and compression work in bridges.
Identify the 4 major types of bridges from the bridge challenge work packet. Be
comfortable with all the answers to the pre-challenge and post-challenge
questions from the packet.