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  2. Displacement (fluid) - Wikipedia

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    Displacement (fluid) Measurement of volume by displacement, (a) before and (b) after an object has been submerged. The amount by which the liquid rises in the cylinder (∆V) is equal to the volume of the object. In fluid mechanics, displacement occurs when an object is largely immersed in a fluid, pushing it out of the way and taking its place.

  3. Archimedes' principle - Wikipedia

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    Archimedes' principle, as stated above, equates the buoyant force to the weight of the fluid displaced. One common point of confusion [by whom?] regarding Archimedes' principle is the meaning of displaced volume. Common demonstrations involve measuring the rise in water level when an object floats on the surface in order to calculate the ...

  4. Buoyancy - Wikipedia

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    Any object, wholly or partially immersed in a fluid, is buoyed up by a force equal to the weight of the fluid displaced by the object —with the clarifications that for a sunken object the volume of displaced fluid is the volume of the object, and for a floating object on a liquid, the weight of the displaced liquid is the weight of the object ...

  5. Archimedes - Wikipedia

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    Measurement of volume by displacement, (a) before and (b) after an object has been submerged. The amount by which the liquid rises in the cylinder (∆V) is equal to the volume of the object. The most widely known anecdote about Archimedes tells of how he invented a method for determining the volume of an object with an irregular shape.

  6. Bernoulli's principle - Wikipedia

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    The displaced fluid volumes at the inflow and outflow are respectively A 1 s 1 and A 2 s 2. The associated displaced fluid masses are – when ρ is the fluid's mass density – equal to density times volume, so ρA 1 s 1 and ρA 2 s 2.

  7. Volumetric flow rate - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. In physics and engineering, in particular fluid dynamics, the volumetric flow rate (also known as volume flow rate, or volume velocity) is the volume of fluid which passes per unit time; usually it is represented by the symbol Q (sometimes ). It contrasts with mass flow rate, which is the other main type of fluid flow rate.

  8. Brunt–Väisälä frequency - Wikipedia

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    Brunt–Väisälä frequency. In atmospheric dynamics, oceanography, asteroseismology and geophysics, the Brunt–Väisälä frequency, or buoyancy frequency, is a measure of the stability of a fluid to vertical displacements such as those caused by convection. More precisely it is the frequency at which a vertically displaced parcel will ...

  9. Flow measurement - Wikipedia

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    Fluid forces the meshed gears to rotate; each rotation corresponds to a fixed volume of fluid. Counting the revolutions totalizes volume, and the rate is proportional to flow. An oval gear meter is a positive displacement meter that uses two or more oblong gears configured to rotate at right angles to one another, forming a T shape.