I've read 3/4 of those, heat and mass transfer was evil.
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That reading list might just make the series unwatchable.
Where's Metal Working 101 and Basics of Electrophysics?
The Manga (most recent editions are referenced):
Cengel, Y. A., & Ghajar, A. J. (2020). Heat and mass transfer : fundamentals & applications (Sixth edition). McGraw-Hill Education.
Çengel, Y. A., & Cimbala, J. M. (2014). Fluid mechanics : fundamentals and applications (Third edition.). McGraw Hill.
Benini, E. (2013). Progress in Gas Turbine Performance (E. Benini, Ed.). IntechOpen.
Gulhati, Sahashi K, and Manoj Datta. Geotechnical Engineering. New Delhi, Tata Mcgraw-Hill, 2005.
Have a looooooooooooooooong train ride ahead. I'm absolutely grabbing these off Anna's archive.
As a mechanical engineer, I am the Avatar.
Why do you need to study turbines? We’re not studying airplanes? Shouldn’t it be like thermodynamics or even just physics?
Airbenders fly now?
For airbending? Yeah, atmospheric science and fluid dynamics is probably the better manga.
Could be fluid dynamics but that's already water. Maybe they should be hydraulics and pneumatics or something
Fluid dynamics could apply to both air and water.
Fluid dynamics are evil.
Doctorate material on sub-elements:
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Metallurgy and crystallography (metalbending).
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Volcanism (lavabending).
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Circulatory systems (bloodbending).
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Electrostatics and plasma physics (lightingbending).
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Quantum mechanics (spirtbending and astral projection).
Sokka being done dirty 😆 where that Dynamics textbook at
I wonder if there is a show where they explore the impact of the bending or just magic in general. Basically Dr.stone but with bending/magic. I love seeing this stuff being used with scientific intent. The nation is basically steam punky.
Ashamed but not ashamed to admit it, but I have quite a fascination with this, and am working/thinking on a fanfic that explores Avatar lore more scientifically. A major perspective is through a Zaofu engineer-type character who looks at spirits, his own bending, and other lore like the portals or vines more scientifically.
That’s where my brain goes. Shrug.
I was hoping we’d get a “bender engineer” character in canon, but that doesn’t appear to be the direction they’re going.
They are in the wrong order 😔
And if you flipped the top image you could have them in order + a fifth book for an extra joke layer
Maybe aerodynamics for boomerang?
Biochemistry for the blood bending.
Uh, Stryer's 4th is very pretty and the name sounds like destroyer. Doesn't make him a punchline though :(
Poseurs
Easy. I don't like anime.
I find the total style of the genre off-putting. Pokemon is as deep as I go and only because it had commercials before I could skip them.
So I will not read the manga and just say I don't like the anime 🤗
(Avatar: the Last Airbender is not based off a manga)
Read the manga anyway, Gas Turbines are lit