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Viscosity

Moving plate in a fluid

Moving plate in a fluid

The velocity of the liquid (in the x-direction) is highest near the moving plate and gets progressively smaller as we move away from the plate in the perpendicular, or y-, direction. Note the magnitude of the velocity vectors for layers increasingly away from the moving plate.

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