Crash Course Engineering

Fluid Flow & Equipment

Today we’ll dive further into fluid flow and how we can use equipment to apply our skills. We explain Bernoulli’s Principle and the relationship between speed and pressure in certain flowing fluids. We’ll also discuss how to apply the principle with Bernoulli’s Equation and try to use it in real-world examples.

Fluid Flow & Equipment

9m 26s

  • Metals & Ceramics: Crash Course Engineering #19: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Metals & Ceramics: Crash Course Engineering #19

    S1 E19 - 10m 3s

    Today we’ll explore more about two of the three main types of materials that we use as engineers: metals and ceramics. We’ll discuss properties of metals, alloys, ceramics, clay, cement, and glass-ceramic materials. We’ll also look at the applications of our materials with microelectromechanical systems and accelerometers.

  • Reaching breaking point: Materials, Stresses, and Toughness:: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Reaching breaking point: Materials, Stresses, and Toughness:

    S1 E18 - 11m 23s

    Today we’re going to start thinking about materials that are used in engineering. We’ll look at mechanical properties of materials, stress-strain diagrams, elasticity and toughness, and describe other material properties like hardness, creep strength, and fatigue strength.

  • Mass Separation: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Mass Separation

    S1 E17 - 11m 16s

    Engineers use three processes to separate chemicals: distillation, which separates substances based on their different boiling points; liquid-liquid extraction, which uses differences in solubility to transfer a contaminant into a solvent; and reverse osmosis, which filters molecules from a solvent by pressurizing it through a semipermeable barrier.

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