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This lecture covers the instability analysis and mechanisms in Taylor Couette flow, discussing various types of instabilities such as Vortex shedding, Saffman-Taylor, Rayleigh-Taylor, and more. The instructor explains the physical mechanisms, equations, base state, linearized equations, normal mode expansion, dispersion relation, and analysis of the dispersion relation.