Duration of the online course: 23 hours and 9 minutes
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Strengthen your mechanical and industrial fundamentals by learning how real fluids behave and how engineers model them. This free online Fluid Mechanics course is designed for learners who want clarity on core concepts and the confidence to apply them in problem-solving situations common in technical interviews and competitive exams. Instead of memorizing formulas, you will focus on building intuition: what changes when temperature rises, why liquids are treated as nearly incompressible, and how different measures such as dynamic and kinematic viscosity are used in practice.
Throughout the course, the emphasis stays on fluid properties and their engineering meaning. You will connect material properties to measurable outcomes, such as how viscosity trends differ for liquids versus gases, how bulk modulus relates to perceived compressibility, and why specific gravity is useful when comparing fluids. You will also interpret surface tension effects in droplets and interfaces, translating physical behavior into the pressure differences and energy changes that engineers calculate.
To make learning stick, the lessons are paired with targeted questions that check understanding immediately. These exercises push you to reason from definitions, choose correct statements, and handle quantitative setups that reflect real exam patterns. You will practice converting a physical scenario into a workable model, for example when analyzing shear-driven flow between plates or estimating power requirements in viscous motion. By engaging with these guided problems, you develop a disciplined approach to units, assumptions, and linear profiles—skills that carry directly into broader mechanical design and process work.
This course fits within Professional Skills and Mechanical and Industrial Basics because it supports the kind of foundational competence expected from mechanical, civil, chemical, and related engineering learners. By the end, you should be able to explain key property relationships in plain language, predict trends with temperature and material behavior, and solve standard conceptual and numerical questions with fewer surprises. Use it as a refresher, a structured start, or a bridge toward more advanced topics such as fluid statics, fluid dynamics, and machine applications.
Video class: Fluid Mechanics 01 | Introduction | GATE 2025 Series | ME/CE/PI/XE/CH
1h54m
Exercise: Which of the following statements about fluid mechanics is true?
Video class: Fluid Mechanics 02 | Fluid Properties (Part 01) | GATE 2025 Series | ME/CE/PI/XE/CH
1h47m
Exercise: What is the primary reason why liquids are generally considered as incompressible fluids?
Video class: Fluid Mechanics 03 | Fluid Properties (Part 02) | GATE 2025 Series | ME/CE/PI/XE/CH
1h36m
Exercise: Which of the following statements is true about specific gravity?
Video class: Fluid Mechanics 04 | Fluid Properties (Part 03) | GATE 2025 Series | ME/CE/PI/XE/CH
2h00m
Exercise: Which of the following statements is true regarding the effect of temperature on the viscosity of fluids?
Video class: Fluid Mechanics 05 | Fluid Properties (Part 04) | GATE 2025 Series | ME/CE/PI/XE/CH
1h48m
Exercise: What happens to the kinematic viscosity of a gas when its temperature is increased, assuming the gas behaves as an ideal gas?
Video class: Fluid Mechanics 06 | Fluid Properties (Part 05) | GATE 2025 Series | ME/CE/PI/XE/CH
1h49m
Exercise: What is the effect of increasing temperature on the kinematic viscosity of liquids?
Video class: Fluid Mechanics 07 | Fluid Properties (Part 06) | GATE 2025 Series | ME/CE/PI/XE/CH
1h29m
Exercise: In a fluid mechanics scenario, consider a flat plate moving over a stationary plate with a layer of fluid sandwiched between them. The thickness of the fluid layer is 2 mm, and it has a dynamic viscosity of 0.3 Ns/m². If the top plate has an area of 1 m² and is moving with a constant velocity of 5 m/s, calculate the power required to maintain this velocity assuming a linear velocity profile across the fluid layer.
Video class: Fluid Mechanics 08 | Fluid Properties (Part 07) | GATE 2025 Series | ME/CE/PI/XE/CH
1h35m
Exercise: In the problem where a circular disk of radius R is kept at a height H above a fixed plate with oil of dynamic viscosity mu, which expression represents the power required to rotate the disk with constant angular velocity Omega?
Video class: Fluid Mechanics 09 | Fluid Properties (Part 08) | GATE 2025 Series | ME/CE/PI/XE/CH
1h27m
Exercise: What is the effect on the perceived compressibility of a fluid if its bulk modulus is high?
Video class: Fluid Mechanics 10 | Fluid Properties (Part 09) | GATE 2025 Series | ME/CE/PI/XE/CH
1h30m
Exercise: In the context of fluid mechanics, what happens to the surface tension of a liquid as the temperature increases?
Video class: Fluid Mechanics 11 | Fluid Properties (Part 10) | GATE 2025 Series | ME/CE/PI/XE/CH
1h34m
Exercise: Which of the following describes the correct relationship for the pressure difference across a liquid droplet due to surface tension?
Video class: Fluid Mechanics 12 | Fluid Properties (Part 11) | GATE 2025 Series | ME/CE/PI/XE/CH
1h11m
Exercise: In which scenario is the pressure difference (\
Video class: Fluid Mechanics 13 | Fluid Properties (Part 12) | GATE 2025 Series | ME/CE/PI/XE/CH
1h13m
Exercise: A droplet with a radius of R is divided into 64 smaller droplets of equal size. If the surface tension of the fluid is σ, what is the ratio of the total surface energy of the smaller droplets to that of the original droplet?
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Exercise: What is one suggested approach if a candidate with a low GATE score still wants to pursue a master's degree?
Video class: Fluid Mechanics 14 | Fluid Properties (Part 13) | GATE 2025 Series | ME/CE/PI/XE/CH
1h20m
Exercise: Which of the following fluids can be classified as a Newtonian fluid?
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Exercise: Which of the following statements is true regarding distractions and achieving your goals?
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Taylor Lindani
great course