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The other day I happened to open an ammeter just out of curiosity. What I saw was that across the positive and negative terminals a wire of considerable thickness(almost equal to the thickness of wires we use for household joints) was wound..It just had 4 or 5 turns. I guess it should be the...

Is Equation of Continuity valid for turbulent flow ? I wanted to know n explanation in terms of forces or something like that. I am not able to understand why should those streamlines come closer to decrease the cross-sectional area...

1)Can two streamlines(line of flow) converge to a single one ? 2) When water flows from the tap, as it flows down the horizontal area of cross-section decreases...An argument using the Equation of Continuity is given...but I have two doubts regarding those i) Is water in freefall Laminar...

I am a beginner in Calculus. I am currently working out Vol.1 Calculus - Tom Apostol.I want to study about Differential Equations from scratch . Could someone suggest a good book ? I basically want to get a good hold of the methods alongwith their applications in solving physics problems ( or...