The polar shear stress in a Newtonian fluid is
On , no slip holds for every , so and . Therefore
Differentiating the solution from part (ii) gives
and hence
The moment arm and line element are both , so the torque exerted by the fluid on the disk per unit axial length is
For the negative sign denotes the clockwise sense of the ambient shear rotation. This agrees with the hydrodynamic torque on a fixed disk in planar shear.