2.25: Advanced Fluid Dynamics
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  Section 2: Static Fluids
  2.1 Equation for pressure distribution in a fluid which is static in some reference frame (its "rest-frame”).
  2.2 Boundary condition on pressure at a density discontinuity in the absence of surface tension.
  2.3 Pressure distribution in a uniform gravitational field of fluid with constant density. Manometers and barometers, forces on dams and gates, buoyancy forces on submerged and floating bodies, hot-air balloons. Stability.
  2.4 Compressible fluids in static equilibrium in a uniform gravitational field. The isothermal ideal-gas model of the atmosphere, and the constant-compressibility model of the ocean.
  2.5 Pressure distribution in accelerating rest-frames. Liquids at rest in linearly accelerating and rotating reference frames; pressure distribution in a gas centrifuge.
 
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Fay, Chapter 2, pages 44-75

 
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