Lecturer: Rami Vainio.
Note: You can prepare an A4 sheet, which you can bring to the exam to assist you (both sides, hand written; use of printer/copy machine is not allowed). This should help you with things you find difficult to remember. The sheet has to be submitted along with your papers in the exam. There will be five problems in the exam, each giving 10 points. Both questions testing qualitative understanding and mathematical problems will be posed. Questions from those parts of the text book that were not covered in the lectures will not be asked in the exam.
Note: The seminar programme is avalaible below.
Note: The exam will take place on 12 May 2010 at 10:00-14 in D101. Remember to register in WebOodi once the registration opens.
Note: Some more instructions for the seminar presentation and the essay below.
Note: Remember to reserve a topic for your seminar presentation from the list below.
Remember to register to the course in WebOodi.
Note that the first lecture of the course is on Friday, 22.01.2010.
Time and place: Mon 10-12 and Fri 12-14 in D117.
Slides used by the lecturer can be downloaded from here. We will follow the textbook:
Despite its subtitle, the book is a rather general introduction to fluids and plasmas. We will cover chapters 1-9 in full and selected parts from ch. 14-16.
Time and place: Thu 14-16 in C220 (Exactum). First session: 28.01.2010.
There will be 9-10 exercise sessions with four problems each.
Teaching assistant: Heli Hietala
Problems:
Exercise 1Each student has to prepare an essay and present it to the fellow students in a short (20-25 min) talk.
The seminar will take place in the first week of May, during lecture and exercise times (Mon 10-12, Thu 14-16, Fri 12-14) in the corresponding rooms. Three presentations will be scheduled for each session. Absence from the sessions is not allowed without a valid reason. If the reason is known in advance (i.e., something else than accute illness) permission to be absent has to be agreed with the lecturer in advance.
The essay has to be submitted to the lecturer at the seminar session where the paper is presented, the latest. It should concentrate on explaining the main concepts and ideas related to the topic. It is not necessary to include exhausting lists of details that undoubtedly can be easily found online on each of the topics. Concentrate on demonstrating that you inderstand the basics and to present the topic to the fellow students in an understandable way. Both the essay and the presentation should make use of illustrations.
The essay should be about 5-8 pages long, including the figures (A4, single spacing). All references must be included in the essay with appropriate citations. Direct quotes from other sources have to be marked with quotation marks, and the amount of direct quotations should be kept as small as possible. Failure to comply with these basic standards will lead to very low points on the essay.
Seminar programme:
Monday, 3 May 2010 at 10:15 in D117