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Illustration of Newton’s law of viscosity. The fluid is sheared with a constant stress. The fluid velocity decreases continuously from its maximum value at the top of the fluid to zero at the bottom. There is thus a gradient in the velocity which can be related to the shear stress in the fluid.
