Q: What is the term for a state of matter that yields to sideways or shearing forces?


Read this paragraph and choose the correct option from the provided answers:

Section Summary 11.1 What Is a Fluid? • A fluid is a state of matter that yields to sideways or shearing forces. Liquids and gases are both fluids. Fluid statics is the physics of stationary fluids.

 Choices:

- gravity

- solid

- plasma

- fluid


A:
fluid