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This study area deals with many and diversified problems such as:It is a branch of
continuum mechanics, a subject which models matter without using the information
that it is made out of atoms, that is, it models matter from a macroscopic viewpoint
rather than from a microscopic viewpoint.It is a branch of continuum mechanics, a
subject which models matter without using the information that it is made out of
atoms, that is, it models matter from a macroscopic viewpoint rather than from a
microscopic viewpoint.
surface tension,
fluid statics,
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Archimedes (250 Investigated fluid statics and buoyancy and
B.C.) formulated his famous law known now as
the Archimedes' principle
Generally considered to be the first major
work on fluid mechanics.
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Evangelista Torricelli (1608-1647) Invented barometer
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Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) Researched hydrostatics, formulated
Pascal's law
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Leonhard Euler (1707-1783) Euler’s equation of acceleration or motion.
Pierre-Simon Laplace Siméon
Denis Poisson
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