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Fluid Mechanics is the 6th volume in the Course of Theoretical Physics series of lectures written by two of the foremost physicists of their time for undergraduate and postgraduate research students studying fluid mechanics. The book delves into the science of fluids and shows how fluids behave and are classified. It discusses liquids and gases, explaining the concept of fluid pressure. Applying the law of conservation of energy to fluids, it explains the derivation and evolution of Bernoulli’s Equation from Euler’s Equation, helping students understand the mathematical counterpart to the subject. In addition, students benefit from the theoretical treatment of the subject which provides them a strong base for future study. A seminal volume in the collection of books on theoretical physics from some of the best writers in the field, this is a must have for lecturers teaching the subject and for students trying to find the roots. About the Authors Lev Davidovich Landau was a Soviet physicist, best known for developing the density matrix methodin quantum mechanics, the quantum mechanical theory of diamagnetism, the theory of superfluidity, the theory of second-order phase transitions, the Ginzburg–Landau theory of superconductivity, the theory of Fermi liquid, the explanation of Landau damping in plasma physics, the Landau pole in quantum electrodynamics, the two-component theory of neutrinos, and Landau's equations for S matrix singularities. Dr. Landau studied at both the Department of Physics and Mathematics and the Department of Chemistry at Baku State University. He later went to the Physics Department of Leningrad State University and began a lifelong association with theoretical physics, earning his doctorate at the Leningrad Physico-Technical Institute. Influenced by Neils Bohr from his stay at Niels Bohr's Institute for Theoretical Physics at Copenhagen, Dr. Landau contributed much to the development of theoretical physics. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1962 for developing his mathematical theory of superfluidity that accounts for the properties of liquid helium II at a temperature below 2.17 K. Evgeny Mikhailovich Lifshitz was a Jewish Soviet physicist, and is best remembered for developing the BKL conjecture concerning the nature of a generic curvature singularity, one of the important open problems in the subject of classical gravitation.