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Viscosity
Question

The force acting tangential to the layers of the liquid is called :

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Solution

When a layer of liquid in a flowing fluid moves relatie to its adjacent layer, viscous drag comes into play at the interface of the layers. This viscous drag is tangential to the plane of the interface and opposes the relative motion of the layers. so option (2) is right.

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