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Honey flows slowly, a raindrop falls at a steady speed, an insect walks on water, and water climbs up in a thin tube. In this course we study the internal friction of a fluid, its viscosity, with Stokes' law and the terminal speed, and the surface tension of a liquid, with surface energy, the pressure inside drops and bubbles, the angle of contact and capillary rise.