A viscous, incompressible fluid flows steadily between two horizontal, infinite, parallel plates that are spaced a distance b=10cm apart as shown in the figure. The fluid has a density of 792 kg/m³. The bottom plate is fixed and the upper plate moves parallel to the bottom plate with a constant velocity, U, = 15 m/s. The velocity variation between the plates is linear. What is the momentum flowrate across vertical surface between the plates, if the width of the plates is 4 cm?

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