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Physics Chapter 10
Fluids
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| pascal | the SI unit for pressure, N/m^2 |
| atmosphere, torr, and milimeters of mercury | other units for pressure |
| gauge pressure | the absolute pressure minus the atmospheric pressure |
| Pascal's principle | states that a change in pressure at any point in a confined fluid is transmitted everywhere throughout the fluid |
| buoyant force | upward force experienced by an object submerged in a fluid, equal in magnitude to the weight of the fluid displaced by the object |
| steady (laminar) flow | has no eddies or rotations in the flow of the fluid |
| streamline | the path of a particle in a flowing incompressible fluid |
| incompressible flow | means that the density of the fluid is constant in space and time |
| viscous fluid | has frictional forces acting on it |
| ideal fluid | an incompressible, non-viscous fluid that undergoes laminar flow |
| mass flow rate | how quickly the mass is changing in time at a given point |
| Bernoulli's principle | relates the pressure and velocity of one point to the pressure and velocity at another point, derived from the work-energy theorem |
| viscosity n | the internal friction of a fluid |
| pascal*second | the SI unit for viscosity |