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Aerodynamics

Liquids — like water and orange juice — are fluids. Air is also a fluid, but air molecules are far less densely arranged than the molecules of a liquid. As a body (such as a car or an airplane) moves through the air, the molecules of the fluid must be pushed out of the way, or displaced. The study of how air and bodies in relative motion interact is aerodynamics.

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