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Engineers study the properties of fluids, including viscosity and compressibility, to test the efficiency of systems under given conditions. True or False?

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True.

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The compressibility of a fluid can be defined as a measure of the change in volume (density) with respect to the amount of pressure applied to the fluid. Thus, as the pressure of a compressible fluid increases, both its viscosity and density increases.

Some examples of compressible fluids are vapors, gases, air etc.

Additionally, the compressibility of fluids plays a significant role in the field of science such as in aerodynamics, fluid mechanics, thermodynamics etc.

Viscosity can be defined as a quantity expressing the magnitude of internal friction that restricts the ease of flow between parallel layers at some distance apart having unit speed relative to each other.

These properties of fluids, including viscosity and compressibility are usually being studied by engineers such as civil engineers, in order to test the efficiency of systems under given conditions.

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