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The principal that states that the pressurein a fluid decreases as the fluid’s velocity increases.

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Bernoulli’s Principal.

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An upward force on an object that moves in a fluid

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Lift

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The pushing or pulling force exerted by the engine of an aircraft or rocket.q

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Thrust

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A force parrapllel to the velocity of the flow; it opposes the diretion of an aircraft and, in combination with thrust, determines the speed of an aircraft.

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drag

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The principal that states that a fluid in equilibrium contained in a vessel ecerts a pressure of equal intensity in all direction

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Pascal’s principal

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The upward force that keeps an oject immersed in or floating on a liquid.

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Buoyant force

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The principal that states that the buoyant force on an object in a fluid is an upward force equal to the weight of the volume of fluid that the object displaces

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Archimedes’ principal

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A nonsolid state of matter in which atoms or molecules are free to move past ecah other

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Fluid

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the amount of force exerted per uit area of a surface

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pressure

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the SI unit of pressure

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Pascal

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the pressure distributed on the atmospjere

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atmospjeric pressure

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