Maryjane Paucek 
Fluid Mechanics 
An Introduction

This book is intended for use in an introductory course in Engineering Fluid Mechanics. It is based primarily on a common core Engineering Fluid Mechanics course. The First eight chapters are the result of experience in teaching that course. They can be covered satisfactorily in approximately 40 lectures and thus can be used in either a three-unit semester course or a four-unit quarter course.Chapters 9, 10, and 11 were added to provide flexibility for those persons who may wish to use the book in a terminal course. Under these circum Astances it may be necessary to delete some material in Chapters 1-8; however, certain sections must be covered if subsequent material is to be understood. These sections are marked with an asterisk.Vector notation is used freely throughout the text, not because it leads to elegance or rigor but simply because fundamental concepts are best expressed in a form which attempts to connect them with reality.