Physical sciences experiments on esters
Tutorials/exercises - 3 pages - Physics
The aim is to produce 6 different esters using ethanoic acid salicylic acid to compare the odors that are produced to their expected odors. An ester formation is a chemical reaction that takes place between carboxylic acid (ethanoic acid and salicylic acid) and alcohols when they are heated over...
Drag Force Measurement
Tutorials/exercises - 7 pages - Physics
In this lab work, drag force measurements on a circular cylinder will be performed by using two experimental methods. One is based on the balance system and the other one, on the determination of the pressure distribution on the outer surface of the cylinder. The objective is to determine the...
Noise and vibration in aerospace combustion engines
Tutorials/exercises - 12 pages - Physics
This document presents the different possible sources of noise and vibrations in a combustion engine.
Aerospace Engine Performance Project - Cessna Skyhawk 172
Tutorials/exercises - 23 pages - Physics
The Cessna 172 has become a household name, particularly in the aviation community. Since its inception in the mid-1950s, the 172 quickly earned its stripes in becoming the most produced aircraft in history. These days, almost all qualified pilots start their flying career on the humble 172, and...
Helicopter control and its general models (PPT presentation)
Tutorials/exercises - 29 pages - Physics
Goal of the project: make a software package to determine the helicopter behavior Further applications: - Make dynamic analysis - Study the trajectory - Investigate air combat - Prepare pilot training... Problems: - Very few investigations have been conducted till now - A very accurate...
Manufacturing and testing of parabolic solar cooker
Tutorials/exercises - 5 pages - Physics
Solar cooking has been proved as the simplest, safest and the most convenient system for cooking food without using traditional fuels and heating up of the kitchen. A parabolic solar cooker works by reflecting solar radiation to a small area, where cooker or baking pot is located. The parabolic...
Brief study of Gabor filters for feature extraction
Tutorials/exercises - 7 pages - Physics
Gabor filters have attracted researchers since they extract information quanta in forms of time and frequency, two physically measurable quantities, combined in the most elegant way by the Heisenberg's uncertainty relation. For decades time-frequency analysis has played a central role in...
Analysis and fabrication of the model of a crane with pneumatic lift
Tutorials/exercises - 71 pages - Physics
Within this dissertation, the manufacturing and fabrication of a prototype of a crane with a pneumatic lift is explained with the help of detailed diagrams. The project is held to covert each and every drop of theoretical knowledge into a crude conceptual and practical work. This introductory...
Hydrodynamic modeling of circulating fluidized bed
Tutorials/exercises - 89 pages - Physics
Fluidization is an operation through which fine granular solids are transformed into a fluid like state through contact with a gas or liquid. Under the fluidized state the gravitational pull on granular solid particles is offset by the fluid drag on them, thus the particles remain in a semi...
Mathematical modeling for axial voidage distribution in CFB
Tutorials/exercises - 6 pages - Physics
Kwauk proposed that the characteristic fine particle distribution in fast fluidization could not be accounted for by the one-dimensional analysis on accelerative motion of particulate fluidization, and presented a physical model for a gas-solid fast fluidization system. The average solid...
The process of reactive distillation
Tutorials/exercises - 35 pages - Physics
Reactive distillation is the combination of separation and reaction ina single vessel. Today Reactive Distillation is discussed as a part of the broader area of reaction and separation, which comprises of many combination of chemical reaction with separation methods including distillation,...
Determination of outer sphere and total Chloride content, and formula of unknown Co complex by ion exchange chromatography and Fajan's method
Tutorials/exercises - 5 pages - Physics
The objective of this lab is to determine the formula of an unknown Co (III) complex through determination of outer sphere chloride content and hence total chloride content in the complex. Co (III) tends to form numerous coordination complexes, of which the most common ones are those with ammine...
The UV-vis spectra of conjugated dyes are interpreted using the multielectron particle-in-a-box model
Tutorials/exercises - 8 pages - Physics
The purpose of this lab is to observe how a real system may be approximated using the simple quantum mechanical model of a one-dimensional particle-in-a-box. Due to the arrangement of the electrons in the conjugated dyes, some electrons are free to move along the molecule's carbon-carbon...
Synthesis and analysis of ammonium vanadates and determination of water and vanadium content in ammonium decavanadate using manganometry
Tutorials/exercises - 8 pages - Physics
The objective of this experiment is to synthesize ammonium decavanadate (NH4)6V10O28.6H2O and ammonium trivanadate NH4V3O8 and subsequently determine the water and vanadium content in ammonium decavanadate. Vanadium in the +5 oxidation state forms numerous species in aqueous solution and a tight...
Determining enthalpies of reaction by calorimetry
Tutorials/exercises - 9 pages - Physics
The purpose of this lab is to determine the specific heat of the calorimeter, the enthalpy changes of 4 different reactions, namely Heat of Solution of NaOH(s), Heat of Solution of KNO3(s), the Heat of Neutralization of HCl(aq) and NaOH(aq), and the Heat of Reaction of NaOH(s) and HCl(aq), and...
Compact heat exchangers
Tutorials/exercises - 5 pages - Physics
A heat exchanger that has a large surface area per unit volume is called a compact heat exchanger. The ratio of the heat transfer surface area to that of a heat exchanger to its volume is called area density ‘?'. A heat exchanger with ?>700m2/m3 is classified as being compact. Compact heat...
Crystal growth and its characterization
Tutorials/exercises - 26 pages - Physics
Recent developments in semiconductor research technology over that last decade have lead to a renew interest in the growth of single crystals with better physical perfection and high crystal growth is newly emerging field in this study of material science which involves control phase change the...
Ion selective electrode potentiometry
Tutorials/exercises - 11 pages - Physics
The use of ISEP offers great selectivity in the determination of trace elements. With the utilization of a fluoride ion selective electrode, the concentration within the unknown sample were determined to be approximately 0.0423 +/- 3.5x10-4 mol/L. (Standard deviation = 4.58 x 10-4) In comparison...
Study of DC drives
Tutorials/exercises - 50 pages - Physics
In general practice in industrial applications machine tools make use of motors for their feed applications where in, speed of this motors are controlled in conventional methods i.e., Ward-Leonard system, multiple voltage control, rheostatic control method etc. However, these methods are...
Computer simulation study of ionic and non ionic hydration
Tutorials/exercises - 6 pages - Physics
Liquids, solution, and liquid crystals present local, but not long-range order. On one hand particles in liquids interacts much strongly than the particles in gas, and this prevents the use of the usual statistical mechanics methods to predict their structure and properties since the needed...
