CTC 261-Hydraulics
Schedule
January/February
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Tuesday/Thursday Class |
Wed Lab/Project (Noon-2 pm on Wed) |
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20/22 Lecture 1 (Intro) |
21
Will not meet for the lab |
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27/29 Lecture 2 (Fluid
Statics) |
28 Meet
in D1155 Intro to Experimental Lab (Safety, specs, etc.); Break into Teams
& Read Intro to Lab Materials |
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3/5 Lecture 3 (Fluid
Statics) |
4
D1155: Visualization/Fluid Statics Labs (Team 1) |
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10/12 Lecture 4 (Continuity/Bernoulli
Equations) |
11 D1155:
Visualization/Fluid Statics Labs (Team 2) |
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17/19 Lecture 5 (Energy equation) |
18 D1155:
Visualization/Fluid Statics Labs (Team 3) |
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24/26 Lecture 6 (Orifices, Weirs and
Sluice Gates) |
25 Makeup Lab and Meet w/ Team Leaders in Lab Wed at noon |
March
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Tuesday/Thursday Class |
Wed Lab (Noon-2 pm on Wed) |
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3/5 Review for
Midterm (Tues) & Midterm (Thurs) |
Work on Lab Reports |
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10/12 Tuesday-Kunsela A133; Thursday Lecture 7 (Open Channel Flow) |
Meet w/
Team Leaders in Lab Wed at noon |
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17/19
SPRING
BREAK |
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24/26 Lecture 8 (Culvert Basics) |
Culvert Replacement Project |
April/May
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Tuesday/Thursday |
Wed Lab (Noon-2 pm on Wed) |
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31/2 Lecture 9 (Culvert Hydraulics) |
Culvert Replacement Project Meet w/ Team Leaders in Lab Wed at noon |
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7/9 Lecture 10 (Culvert Design) |
Culvert Replacement Project |
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14/16 Lecture 11 (SWD & Riprap) |
Culvert Replacement Project Meet w/
Team Leaders in Lab Wed at noon |
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21 Culvert Project Draft
Poster Due Field Trip (Weather
Permitting) 23-xxxxxxxxx |
Culvert Replacement Project Meet w/
Team Leaders in Lab Wed at noon |
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28/30 Review |
Culvert Project Due |
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Midterm Exam (Thursday March
5: 11am-Noon) Will test ability to: ·
Solve manometer
problems ·
Find resultant forces/center
of pressures on horizontal plane surfaces, vertical plane surface and
inclined submerged plane surfaces ·
Solve buoyancy
problems ·
Determine
Reynold’s number ·
Calculate friction
losses using Darcy-Weisbach ·
Use Bernoulli’s
and energy equations ·
Sketch or graph
EGL/HGL lines Final Exam---Thursday May 7
(10:15-12:15) Final Review PPT (final exam will
not include riprap design) Will test ability to: ·
Solve orifice/weir
problems ·
Find capacity,
velocity and normal depth using Manning’s equation ·
Find critical
depth/Froude number and determine whether you have critical/subcritical or
supercritical flow ·
Calculate headwater
elevation, downstream velocity and what type of control (inlet or outlet) for
a given culvert using the culvert worksheet ·
Determine the type of
control for a culvert |
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Last Updated on April 1, 2026