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Dead Guys Flashcards

1
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Claude Navier and Gabriel Stokes

A

Navier-Stokes Equation

Related to Fluid Movement

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2
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Augustus Love

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Love Waves - Surface Waves

Relates to Seismology

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Maxwell

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Maxwells Equation
Linked to Navier-Stokes Equations
Related to Fluid Movement

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4
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Jean Poiseuille

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Poise
Units of Nm^-2s
same as Pas
Related to rheology

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5
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Robert Hooke

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Hookes Law
Hookean
Related to elasticity - rheology

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6
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Lord Rayleigh

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Rayleigh Waves - Surface Waves

Related to Seismology

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7
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Tesla

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Nm/A
Describes flux density
Related to field methods

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8
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Laplace

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Laplaces Equation
Has it’s own operator
Related to potential fields

If you know the horizontal derivatives you can calculate vertical coordinates

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9
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Jeffrey’s-Bullen

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Related to Seismology

To do with travel time curves

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10
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Pierre Bouguer

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Bought Anomaly
Accounts for extra rock mass
Related to potential fields

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11
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Bernoulli

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Bernouillis Equation
Is how planes fly
Reduction of fluid pressure

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12
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Isaac Newton

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Newton’s Laws
Describes viscosity - Newtonian

Related to laws of motion and rheology

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13
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Blaise Pascal

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Pa

1Pa = 1Nm-2

Kinematics and Dynamics

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Reynolds

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Reynolds number (re)
Dimensionless
Related to fluid dynamics
If Re increases, size increases, density increases, Viscosity decreases

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15
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George Stokes

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Stokes Law

To do with falling particles

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16
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Richardson

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(Ri)
Richardson’s equation 
Dimensionless 
Ration of potential and kinetic energy 
Buoyancy vs momentum
17
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Andrija mohorovićić

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Discovers the Moho
Is 30-45km thick
Seismology

Geophysics (10 decks)

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