Fluid Mechanics:- Mechanics is frequently asked in GATE and other PSU exams carrying medium marks weightage. Fluid statics comprises of topics Pascals Law, the pressure at a point and general equation for variation of pressure. Fluid Statics:- 1. Fluid statics deals with problems associated with fluids at rest. The fluid can be either gaseous or liquid. 2. Fluid statics is generally referred to as hydrostatics when the fluid is a liquid and as aerostatics when the fluid is a gas. 3. The only stress we deal with in fluid statics is the normal stress, which is the pressure, and the variation of pressure is due to only the weight of the fluid. Therefore, the topic of fluid statics has significance only in gravity fields, and the force relations developed naturally involve the gravitational acceleration (g). 4. The force exerted on a surface by a fluid at rest is normal to the surface at the point of contact since there is no shear forces due to the absence of relative m...