MECH&AE 150A
Intermediate Fluid Mechanics
Description: Lecture, four hours; discussion, two hours; outside study, six hours. Enforced requisites: courses 82, 103. Basic equations governing fluid motion. Fundamental solutions of Navier/Stokes equations. Lubrication theory. Elementary potential flow theory. Boundary layers. Turbulent flow in pipes and boundary layers. Compressible flow: normal shocks, channel flow with friction or heat addition. Letter grading.
Units: 4.0
Units: 4.0
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Professor Eldredge is probably the best professor I have had at UCLA. He took an inherently difficult class and presented it in a clear and concise way. The class requires a decent amount of work, but it is a very interesting subject, and doing the homework correctly pays off big time on the tests.
Professor Eldredge is probably the best professor I have had at UCLA. He took an inherently difficult class and presented it in a clear and concise way. The class requires a decent amount of work, but it is a very interesting subject, and doing the homework correctly pays off big time on the tests.
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Winter 2018 - For this first three weeks I was really overwhelmed and lost in this class. I started going to office hours for the professor and the TA every week and it drastically improved my understanding of the course. Professor Karagozian was so helpful and patient and didn't just gove you the answer which I liked. My TA was helpful for checking hw answers (the textbook solutions were unavailable online everywhere) and going over relevant problems in discussion. The first midterm was kind of tough (average of ~65) and on the second midterm the average was even lower (~60) but I did a lot better on the second one. I recommend reading the book and doing practice problems in order to gain exposure to a wide variety of problems. Also a couple of problems that we went over in discussion were almost identical to questions on the midterms. Read the book, go to office hours, and study with practice problems for the tests and you'll be fine.
Winter 2018 - For this first three weeks I was really overwhelmed and lost in this class. I started going to office hours for the professor and the TA every week and it drastically improved my understanding of the course. Professor Karagozian was so helpful and patient and didn't just gove you the answer which I liked. My TA was helpful for checking hw answers (the textbook solutions were unavailable online everywhere) and going over relevant problems in discussion. The first midterm was kind of tough (average of ~65) and on the second midterm the average was even lower (~60) but I did a lot better on the second one. I recommend reading the book and doing practice problems in order to gain exposure to a wide variety of problems. Also a couple of problems that we went over in discussion were almost identical to questions on the midterms. Read the book, go to office hours, and study with practice problems for the tests and you'll be fine.
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Fall 2020 - This was taken during COVID. Sam was a great lecturer, and really cares a lot about his students. This class comes with a preface of being one of the hardest Mech&AE undergrad courses, but it actually wasn't that bad. Sam really makes sure that you learn everything you need to know. He is extremely helpful in office hours, and his office hours often helped me much more in 15 minutes that the entire discussion session did (and I felt our TA was also really good). The one downside to this class is the workload. Sam likes to assign hard problems for homework and these homeworks took up more time than homework from any other class. With that said, his midterm and final had questions that were similar to the homeworks, but often made to take much less time. I didn't feel unprepared when it came to the midterm and final.
Fall 2020 - This was taken during COVID. Sam was a great lecturer, and really cares a lot about his students. This class comes with a preface of being one of the hardest Mech&AE undergrad courses, but it actually wasn't that bad. Sam really makes sure that you learn everything you need to know. He is extremely helpful in office hours, and his office hours often helped me much more in 15 minutes that the entire discussion session did (and I felt our TA was also really good). The one downside to this class is the workload. Sam likes to assign hard problems for homework and these homeworks took up more time than homework from any other class. With that said, his midterm and final had questions that were similar to the homeworks, but often made to take much less time. I didn't feel unprepared when it came to the midterm and final.
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