The Art of Estimation Physics also known as Ph 2239 Statistical Mechanics for Dummies Patrick Diamond, George M. Fuller, Tom Murphy Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego
Handy Facts: Solar System radius of earth’s orbit around sun
Handy Facts: the Universe
Fluids, Transport, Turbulence
Mean Free Path/Time diffusion constant
Random Walk time to random walk a distance R
Fluid Dynamics – for the impatient Really, nothing more than energy-momentum conservation
Kinematic Viscosity
Perfect Fluid: No viscosity and no heat flow in a momentarily co-moving rest frame
Example: photon viscosity (radiation dominated)
Reynolds number
“The Feynman Lectures on Physics”, Vol. II, Figure 41-6