Laboratory Exercises

Please read and understand the laboratory exercises before your scheduled laboratory section.

The Tank Filling, Tank Draining and Sudden Expansion laboratory exercises are part of Professor Gerry Recktenwald’s Engineering of Everyday Things (EET) research project on developing innovative education in undergraduate engineering.  These exercises will not require a written report but a worksheet will be completed within the laboratory timeframe and graded.  The background information and laboratory worksheets can be found on the EET website.  Please print out these worksheets and bring them with you to your laboratory section.

Tank Filling              Tank Filling

Sudden Expansion     Sudden Expansion

Tank Draining          Tank Draining

The remaining exercises will require elements of a laboratory report (Submerge surface, Bernoulli, and Jet impact) and a full report for the combined Viscometer A and B.  The PDF's of each of these exercises follow.  Please print these out and bring them with you to your laboratory section.

Viscometer A        video demonstration of Thomas Stormer viscometer    Thomas Stormer raw data

Viscometer B        video demonstration of Falling ball viscometer        Falling ball viscometer raw data

Submerged Surface    video demonstration of forces on submerged surface    Forces on submerged surface raw data

Bernoulli    video demonstration of the Bernoulli apparatus    Appartus picture #1    Apparatus picture #2    Bernoulli Experiment data

Jet Impact    video demonstration of Jet Impact    Impact of a jet raw data

Note: the apparatus figure in the manual is incorrect. Here is the correct Jet impact apparatus figure.