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Equiaccelerated straight-line motion
Suppose that a vessel filled with liquid is moving in a straight line at constant…
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Force to tear a cylinder
Force to tear a cylinder (3.28) In the case of a thin cylinder where the…
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Compressibility
As shown in Fig. 2.9, assume that fluid of volume V at pressure p decreased…
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Absolute system of units
MKS system of units This is the system of units where the metre (m) is…
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Characteristics of a fluid
Fluids are divided into liquids and gases. A liquid is hard to compress and as…
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Stability
Floating or submerged bodies such as boats, ships etc. are sometime acted upon by certain…
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Hydrostatic force on submerged surfaces
Designing of any hydraulic structure, which retains a significant amount of liquid, needs to calculate…
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Manometers: Pressure Measuring Devices
Manometers are simple devices that employ liquid columns for measuring pressure difference between two points.…
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Basic equations of fluid statics
An equation representing pressure field P = P (x, y, z) within fluid at rest…
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System and control volume
A system refers to a fixed, identifiable quantity of mass which is separated from its…