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| When you finish reading this chapter, you
should be able to: ■ Have an intuitive understanding of the various physical phenomena such as drag, friction and pressure drag, drag reduction, and lift ■ Calculate the drag force associated with flow over common geometries ■ Understand the effects of flow regime on the drag coefficients associated with flow over cylinders and spheres ■ Understand the fundamentals of flow over airfoils, and calculate the drag and lift forces acting on airfoils |