Reading Assignment

Chapters 4 and 5 in the book Modeling and Identification of Dynamic Systems (edition 1 or 2)

Learning goals: You should be able to perform dimensional analysis to determine dimensionless variables, and to use the Buckingham's Pi-theorem to deduce expected structure of physical laws. You should know effort and flow variables for the domains of electric systems, mechanical translation and rotation, flow systems, and thermal systems. You should know about the similarities between these different physical domains.

Lecture 7 slides are available here: Lecture7_PhysicalModeling.pdf

Lecture7_small.pdf

Lecture 7 video:

also available on Youtube here

https://youtu.be/_Xp-bz3qYpY

NEW: Post your questions on the video lecture here lecture-7-physical-modelling-PADLET

The youtube clips mentioned in the lecture:

Laminar flow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p08_KlTKP50
Turbulent flaw is more awesome than laminar flow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zI9sG3pjVU
Why outlets spark when you unplug them https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1Ld8D2bnJM
What is a hydraulic jump https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbbQ34jII9Y and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tjf8HWiR3Y

Additional material:

Featureplot for music taste prediction assignment, shown on lecture

Energy2D simulation tool (It will not be used in the course, but it is a nice free tool I recommend): https://energy.concord.org/energy2d/

Additional material on Modeling (this is only provided as a help for the interested student. This material is not needed to pass the course, but some of it can be quite useful.)