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Question
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What is fluid pressure? Write the factors on which fluid friction depends.

Solution

The pressure exerted by gases and fluids is known as fluid pressure. Fluids exert a force on an object in it which is called fluid friction. This fluid friction is also called drag.

Fluid friction depends are as following:

(i) Speed with respect to fluid. 

(ii) Shape of the object.

(iii) Nature of the fluid.