HR: 0800h
AN: ED31A-0739    [Abstracts]
TI: Rotating Fluids : Hands-on Demonstrations for Graduate and General Education Courses
AU: * Luebke, C
EM: Tachomed@msn.com
AF: Physics Department, UMass Dartmouth, 285 Old Westport Rd, North Dartmouth, MA 02747 United States
AU: Emmanuel, G
EM: georgeemmanuel@hotmail.com
AF: Physics Department, UMass Dartmouth, 285 Old Westport Rd, North Dartmouth, MA 02747 United States
AU: Tandon, A
EM: atandon@umassd.edu
AF: Physics Department, UMass Dartmouth, 285 Old Westport Rd, North Dartmouth, MA 02747 United States
AU: El-Wakil, K
EM: kelwakil@msn.com
AF: Physics Department, UMass Dartmouth, 285 Old Westport Rd, North Dartmouth, MA 02747 United States
AB: Rotating tables are useful to demonstrate a variety of geophysical flow phenomena about ocean-atmosphere flows. We discuss a small budget (less than \$4k) effort at UMass Dartmouth that posed the construction and demonstration of a rotating table designed by two students involved in a senior design project in Mechanical Engineering. With suggestions from Jack Whitehead and Keith Bradley at WHOI, Peter Cornillon at URI and Bud Brown at MIT, the students took the table from concept to a working version. The table (60cm in diameter) features a color video camera in the rotating frame of reference and has a dedicated computer to record experiments. It is being used for laboratory demonstrations in general education courses as well as for hands-on projects in a graduate course in Physics and Oceanography.
DE: 4500 OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL
DE: 0810 Post-secondary education
DE: 0820 Curriculum and laboratory design
DE: 0845 Instructional tools
DE: 0930 Oceanic structures
SC: Education and Human Resourcese [ED]
MN: 2004 AGU Fall Meeting