| At the very beginning, you can study Cases to get motivated for what to do in this chapter. At the end, when you feel confident, you can come back to one of the Cases and work on it. Turn it into a project. | |
| View and study some of the phenomena listed here in the Overview. You can study the phenomena along with reading about them in the text. | |
| Use the modeling activities of the Investigations (in the Activities section) to gain access to a new field. In particular, use this approach to build your analogical reasoning abilities — electrical and fluid processes can be understood on the basis of structurally similar concepts. | |
Read the Brief Text of Chapter 5. Try to do some of the Exercises to test your understanding of the text. | |
| The Activities section gives you access to different types of things to do. There are Problems (small investigations, typically the type of questions that arise in large-scale investigations, sometimes requiring data analysis and computer modeling), and Investigations (activities based on experiments and computer modeling). | |
| In this section, you find a List of Concepts of Mechanical Processes. This allows you to quickly get an overview of the most important ideas governing the modeling of fluid systems and processes. | |
| Turn to the Materials environment to find tables of physical quantities, lists of relations, and lists of files used in this chapter. | |
