🧄Fluid Mechanics Integrals for Mass and Motion

The solutions demonstrate how fundamental physical quantities in a continuous fluid are determined by integrating their respective densities over a given volume V. In all cases, the mass density ρ(x)\rho(x) is crucial as it scales the quantity per unit mass to the quantity per unit volume, dVd V . The total kinetic energy is a scalar, found by integrating the kinetic energy density 12ρv2\frac{1}{2} \rho|v|^2. In contrast, both the total momentum and total angular momentum are vector quantities. Total momentum is the integral of the linear momentum density ρv\rho v. Total angular momentum, which must be defined relative to a specific reference point x0x_0, is the integral of the angular momentum density ρ(xx0)×v\rho\left(x-x_0\right) \times v.

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