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CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY<br />
HYDRAULICS<br />
PROFESSOR: ROBERT L. DAUGHERTY<br />
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR: ROBERT T. KNAPP<br />
INSTRUCTOR: JAMES W. DAILY<br />
RESEARCH FELLOW: VITO A. VANONI<br />
UNDERGRADUATE SUBJECTS<br />
Hy. 1 a, b. Hydraulics. 12 units (3-3-6), first or second term; 9 units<br />
(3-0-6), second or third term.<br />
Prerequisite: AM. 1 a, or to be taken at the same time.<br />
Physical properties of water; hydrostatics; flow of water in pipes, nozzles, and<br />
channels; hydraulic turbines; centrifugal pumps and other hydraulic equipment.<br />
Text: Hydraulics, Daugherty.<br />
Instructors: Knapp, Daily.<br />
Hy. 2. Hydraulics Laboratory. 6 units (0-3-3); first or second term.<br />
Prerequisite: AM. 1 a, b.<br />
Experiments on the flow of water through orifices and nozzles, through pipes<br />
and Venturi meters, over weirs; use of Pitot tube; tests of impulse and reaction<br />
turbines, centrifugal pumps, and other hydraulic apparatus.<br />
Instructors: Daily and Assistants.<br />
Hy. 4. Hydraulic Machinery. 9 units (3-0-6); third term.<br />
Prerequisites: Hy. 1 and 2.<br />
Theory, construction, installation, operation, and characteristics of hydraulic<br />
turbines and centrifugal pump ••<br />
Instructor: Knapp.<br />
Hy. s. Hydraulics. 12 units (3-3-6); third term.<br />
Prerequisite: AM 1 a, or to be taken at the same time.<br />
An abridgement of Hy. 1 a, b for electrical engineering students.<br />
Text: Hydraulics, Daugherty.<br />
Instructors: Knapp, Daily.<br />
ADVANCED SUBJECTS<br />
Hy. 100. Fluid Mechanics. 12 units (3-0-9); second term.<br />
Prerequisites: Hy. 1 and 2.<br />
Dimensional analysis; principles of energy, continuity, and momentum; potential<br />
flow; use of the flow net; cavitation; equations of viscous motion; laminar flow;<br />
turbulence; resistance of immersed bodies; flow in closed conduits; flow in open<br />
channels; wave motion.<br />
Text: Fluid Mechanici for Hydraulic Engineers, Rouse.<br />
Instructors: Daugherty, Knapp, Vanoni.<br />
Hy. 101. Hydraulic Machinery. Units to be based on work done; any<br />
term.<br />
A study of such machines as the hydraulic turbine and the centrifugal pump and<br />
their design to meet specific conditions.<br />
Instructors: Daugherty, Knapp.
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