Shear is the type of force that occurs when two objects slide parallel to one another. Viscosity describes how a fluid resists forces, or more specifically shear forces. In this activity, we'll be measuring a property of fluids called viscosity. Considering just these few examples of the wide variety of applications of fluid mechanics, you can see how fluid mechanics is important to understand for many types of engineering design in our world. Aerospace engineers study gas turbines that launch space shuttles and civil engineers use fluid mechanics for dam design. Bioengineers study medical conditions such as blood flow through an aneurysm. Mechanical engineers implement fluid mechanics when designing sports equipment such as golf balls, footballs, baseballs, road bikes and swimming gear. Can you think of any examples of engineering applications for which an understanding the behavior of fluids is important? (Listen to student ideas.) Environmental engineers use fluid mechanics to study pollution dispersion, forest fires, volcano behavior, weather patterns to aid in long-term weather forecasting, and oceanography. This encompasses a wide variety of applications. Fluid mechanics includes hydrodynamics, the study of force on liquids, and aerodynamics, the study of bodies moving through air. Use units as a way to understand problems and to guide the solution of multi-step problems.ДЇit a linear function for a scatter plot that suggests a linear association.Д¬hoose and interpret units consistently in formulas.ДЇluid mechanics is the study of how fluids react to forces. Solve equations and inequalities in one variable. International Technology and Engineering Educators Association - TechnologyД¬onstruct and interpret scatter plots for bivariate measurement data to investigate patterns of association between two quantities. Rearrange formulas to highlight a quantity of interest, using the same reasoning as in solving equations. Use units as a way to understand problems and to guide the solution of multi-step problems choose and interpret units consistently in formulas choose and interpret the scale and the origin in graphs and data displays.ДЇit a function to the data use functions fitted to data to solve problems in the context of the data. Solve linear equations and inequalities in one variable, including equations with coefficients represented by letters. Represent data on two quantitative variables on a scatter plot, and describe how the variables are related. Describe patterns such as clustering, outliers, positive or negative association, linear association, and nonlinear association.

Construct and interpret scatter plots for bivariate measurement data to investigate patterns of association between two quantities.

Viscosity of water in cp