Prerequisite for this course is PHYS1121
To give students the underpinning knowledge that is applied to the physical environments encountered in mines and the behaviour of liquids and gases in mine services and mineral processing.Fluid mechanics: properties, fluid statics, steady and unsteady flow, laminar and turbulent flow, Reynold's number, acceleration of a fluid particle, continuity equation, steady flow for stream-tube, momentum equation, Bernoulli's equation, measurement of flow, laminar flow between parallel plates, flow in pipelines, open channels, head losses at enlargements, contractions, bends.Thermodynamics: states, ideal gas, definition of temperature scale, real gases, equilibrium diagram, p-v diagram, steam tables. Systems, processes and cycles, first law of thermodynamics, internal energy, mechanical work, polytropic processes, steady flow systems, enthalpy, the Rankine cycle, heat engines, heat pumps, entropy, gaseous mixtures, psychrometry.