Chapter–10: Mechanical Properties of Fluids
- Pressure due to a fluid column;
- Pascal's law and its applications (hydraulic lift and hydraulic brakes)
- Effect of gravity on fluid pressure.
- Viscosity
- Stokes' law
- terminal velocity
- streamline and turbulent flow
- critical velocity
- Bernoulli's theorem and its applications.
- Surface energy and surface tension
- angle of contact
- excess of pressure across a curved surface
- application of surface tension ideas to drops
- bubbles and capillary rise.
