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BERNOULLI’S EQUATION AND ITS APPLICATION

Assumptions in Bernoulli’s equation: fluid is ideal flow is steady flow is continuous fluid is incompressible flow is irrotational applicable

Boundary layer is a region in the immediate vicinity of the boundary surface in which the velocity of flowing fluid

The members of truss which support no loading are known as zero force members. These zero force members are used

Capillary Action Height of water in capillary tube Capillary action is due to both adhesion and cohesion. For capillary action,

Archimedes Principle When a body is submerged either fully or partially, then it is acted upon by a force of

It is defined as a scalar function of space and time such that its negative derivative along any direction gives

The analysis of a truss involves determining the reaction at the supports and the stresses induced in the members due

The members of truss which support no loading are known as zero force members. These zero force members are used

Consider two bodies of mass m1 and m2 respectively. Let these bodies be moving with respective velocities u1 and u2

The law of conservation of Energy states that the energy can neither be created nor destroyed, though it can be

Energy of a body is the capacity of to do the work. We always say, a healthy man has high

Introduction D’Alembert’s Principle In 1743, D’Alembert proved that the Newton’s second law is applicable not only to motion of particle

Theory of Machines – Mechanical Engineering The theory of machines is an applied science which is used to understand the

Let us analyse the effect of gyroscopic couple acting on the body of aeroplane for various conditions. Let the propeller

A radial cam with reciprocating roller follower is shown in Fig. (above). The following nomenclature is used in reference to

It is a device to connect two shafts whose axes are neither coaxial nor parallel but intersect at a point.

A mechanism built in such a manner that a particular point in it is constrained to trace a straight line

A pantograph is a four-bar linkage used to produce paths exactly similar to the ones traced out by a point

For a slider-crank mechanism, a simpler method to construct constant velocity and acceleration polygon on the configuration diagram itself has