1.1 Fluid Characteristics
- Continuum concept
- Units and dimensions
1.2 Density, relative density, specific weight, specific gravity, specific volume, weight, viscosity, compressibility and bulk modulus, vapor pressure, surface tension and capillary action

2.1 Pressure measurement: Absolute and gauge pressure
- Introduction
- Concepts of pressure
- Pascal’s law for pressure at a point
- Pressure variation in a fluid at rest
- Pressure and head
- The hydrostatic paradox
- Pressure measurement by manometer

2.2 Pressure prism: Hydrostatic pressure on plane and curved surface
- Application: hydraulic gate

2.3 Buoyancy: Archimedes’ Principle
- Stability of floating bodies
- Metacenter and metacentric height
- Application: floating pontoon

3.1 Continuity equation: flow properties (velocity and flow rate)
- Introduction
- Concepts of fluid flow
- Classification of flow
- Velocity and discharge
- Conservation of mass and continuity equation

3.2 Fluid dynamic - Bernoulli/ Energy equation, application for free jet, confined flow, flow measurement (pitot-tube, venturimeter, orifice, notches) concept of static and dynamic pressure, stagnation point.

3.3 Momentum equation: control volume approach
- Application of Momentum Equation in fluid flow

3.4 Ideal fluid vs real fluid: Inviscid flow vs viscous flow

3.5 Reynold’s number: Laminar, transitional and turbulent flow, fully developed flow

3.6 Flow over immersed bodies: boundary layer theory, lift and drag

A1 : Fluid mechanics is the branch of physics concerned with the mechanics of fluids (liquids, gases, and plasmas) and the forces on them.