Wednesday, 29 January 2014

PROPERTIES OF FLUIDS AND PRESSURE MEASUREMENTS

DEFINITION OF FLUID

                  In physics, a fluid is a substance that continually deforms (flows) under an applied shear stress. Fluids are a subset of the phases of matter and include liquids, gases, plasmas and, to some extent, plastic solids.
                  Fluid is a a substance, as a liquid or gas, that is capable of flowing and that changes its shape at a steadyrate when acted upon by a force tending to change its shape.

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