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Microscopic Balance Equations Partial differential balance equations express the conservation principles at a point in space. Equations for mass, momentum, totaf energy, and mechanical energy may be found in Whitaker (ibid.). Bird, Stewart, and Lightfoot (Transport Phenomena, Wiley, New York, 1960), and Slattery (Momentum, Heat and Mass Transfer in Continua, 2d ed., Krieger, Huntington, N.Y., 1981), for example. These references also present the equations in other useful coordinate systems besides the cartesian system. The coordinate systems are fixed in inertial reference frames. The two most used equations, for mass and momentum, are presented here. 

Fluid statics, discussed in Sec. 10 of the Handbook in reference to pressure measurement, is the branch of fluid mechanics in which the fluid velocity is either zero or is uniform and constant relative to an inertial reference frame. With velocity gradients equal to zero, the momentum equation reduces to a simple expression for the pressure field, Vp = pg. Letting z be directed vertically upward, so that g, = —g where g is the gravitational acceleration (9.806 mVs), the pressure field is given by... 

LeRoy, J. P., and Wallace, R. (1987), Form of the Quantum Kinetic Energy Operator for Relative Motion of A Group of Particles in A General Non-Inertial Reference Frame, Chem. Phys. 118, 379. 

Consider the system and control volume as illustrated in Fig. 2.2. The Eulerian control volume is fixed in an inertial reference frame, described by three independent, orthogonal, coordinates, say z,r, and 9. At some initial time to, the system is defined to contain all the mass in the control volume. A flow field, described by the velocity vector (t, z,r, 9), carries the system mass out of the control volume. As it flows, the shape of the system is distorted from the original shape of the control volume. In the limit of a vanishingly small At, the relationship between the system and the control volume is known as the Reynolds transport theorem. 

Using the Blake-Kozeny equation, the screw conveyor reactor can be modeled as rotating equipment in which the fluid is moved by screw rotation. Although 10 small horizontal cylindrical baffles exist in the screw flights, the interaction between the screw and baffles can be ignored. For this case, the rotating reference frame was used instead of the inertial reference frame. 

Michelson interferometer—An instrument designed to divide a beam of visible light into two beams which travel along different paths until they recombine for observation of the interference fringes that are produced. Interferometers are used to make precision measurements of distances. Special relativity—The part of Einstein s theory of relativity that deals only with nonaccelerating (inertial) reference frames. 

The relatively simple concept represented by the sky-diver example is easily generalized to provide a relationship between the convected derivative of any scalar quantity B associated with a fixed material point and the partial derivatives of B with respect to time and spatial position in a fixed (inertial) reference frame. Specifically, B changes for a moving material point both because B may vary with respect to time at each fixed point at a rate dB/dt and because the material point moves through space and B may be a function of spatial position in the direction of motion. The rate of change of B with respect to spatial position is just V/i. The rate at which B changes with time for a material point with velocity u is then just the projection of VB onto the direction of motion multiplied by the speed, which is u VB. It follows that the convected time derivative of any scalar B can be expressed in terms of the partial derivatives of B with respect to time and spatial position as... 

Since the angular velocity wq of the environment is zero (for phenomena for which the earth can be taken as an inertial reference frame),... 

Conservation of mass in an inertial reference frame, for a viscous, compressible, time dependent flow is given by ... 

If the motion is steady when viewed from an inertial reference frame, the term 5v/5i vanishes identically. Providing that the remaining nondimensional terms remain finite as i -> 0, these then reduce to Stokes equations at sufficiently small Reynolds numbers. In dimensional form, Stokes equations are... 

The basic laws of physics are the same in all inertial reference frames. 

The tendency for an object moving above the Earth to turn to the right in the Northern Hemisphere and to the left in the Southern Hemisphere relative to the Earth s surface. The effect arises because the Earth rotates and is not, therefore, an inertial reference frame, cotyledon... 

In the equation of motion for the endolymph fluid, the force Tf dA acts on the fluid at the fluid-otoconial layer interface (Figure 64.2). This shear stress tf is responsible for driving the fluid flow. The linear Navier-Stokes equation for an incompressible fluid are used to describe this endolymph flow. Expressions for the pressure gradient, the flow velocity of the fluid measured with respect to an inertial reference frame, and the force due to gravity (body force) are substituted into the Navier-Stokes equation for flow in the x-direction yielding... 

Second law Given O is a fixed point on the inertial reference frame, the rate of change of the angular momentum of the body about O is equal to net moment of forces acting on the body about O. 

FIGURE 6.14 Two bodies, A and B, shown articulating at a joint. Body A is fixed in an inertial reference frame, and body B moves relative to it. The path of a generic muscle is represented by the origin S on B, the insertion N on A, and three intermediate via points P, Q, and R.QandR are via points arising from contact of the muscle path with body B. Via point P arises from contact of die muscle path with body A. The ISA of B relative to A is defined by the angular velocity vector of B in A [Modified from Pandy (1999). ... 

The concept of apparent forces now follows. Newton s second law is valid in an inertial reference frame and therefore says... 

This section will develop the bond graph of a mechanical elements system. This system represents the free movement of a rigid body, with a local reference system designated as 1, which has its center of mass at point G. A generic point P will also be defined to serve as an example of the junction point with another rigid body. Finally, an inertial reference frame centered at point 0 will also be defined (Fig. 9.7). The kinematic relations for the velocity of a generic point P of a body are... 

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