Most of the fluids are not ideal ones and offer some resistance to motion. This…
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Viscosity and Stokes’ Law
Dynamic Lift
Dynamic lift is the force that acts on a body, such as airplane wing, a hydrofo…
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Dynamic Lift
Venturi-meter
The Venturi-meter is a device to measure the flow speed of incompressible fluid…
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Venturi-meter
Speed of Efflux: Torricelli’s Law
The word efflux means fluid outflow. Torricelli discovered that the speed of ef…
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Speed of Efflux: Torricelli’s Law
BERNOULLI’S PRINCIPLE
Fluid flow is a complex phenomenon. But we can obtain some useful properties fo…
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BERNOULLI’S PRINCIPLE
Streamline Flow
So far we have studied fluids at rest. The study of the fluids in motion is kno…
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Streamline Flow
Hydraulic Machines
Let us now consider what happens when we change the pressure on a fluid contain…
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Hydraulic Machines
Atmospheric Pressure and Gauge Pressure
The pressure of the atmosphere at any point is equal to the weight of a column …
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Atmospheric Pressure and Gauge Pressure
Variation of Pressure with Depth
Consider a fluid at rest in a container. In Fig. 1 point 1 is at height h above…
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Variation of Pressure with Depth
Pascal’s Law
The French scientist Blaise Pascal observed that the pressure in a fluid at res…
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Pascal’s Law
Pressure
A sharp needle when pressed against our skin pierces it. Our skin, however, rem…
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Pressure