An ideal fluid is defined as a fluid that is incompressible (density is constant) and non-viscous. Compressibility is a measure of how much the volume or density of a fluid changes under pressure.
The value of the compressibility of an ideal fluid is
Asked in WBCS Main Paper 4 2019 · Topic: Mechanics (Fluid Statics and Dynamics (Continuity Equation, Bernoulli's Theorem))
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