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Fluid Flow and Viscosity
Physics · Chapter 15 · Units 7-9: Properties of Bulk Matter; Heat and Thermodynamics; Kinetic Theory of Gases
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- Streamline and turbulent flow; tubes of flow; equation of continuity v1a1 = v2a2; critical velocity; Reynolds number (significance)
- Bernoulli's theorem: assumptions for an ideal liquid and derivation
- Applications of Bernoulli's theorem: atomiser, dynamic lift, Venturimeter, Magnus effect
- Viscosity: laminar flow and viscous drag; velocity gradient; Newton's formula F = eta A dv/dx; coefficient of viscosity and units (poise); Poiseuille's formula
- Stokes' law; terminal velocity of a sphere in a fluid; rising bubbles and parachutes