  Quantum Hall (QH) states are predicted to display an intriguing
non-dissipative stress response to a shear deformation rate, a phenomenon
variously known as asymmetric or Hall viscosity, or Lorentz shear response.
Just as the QH effect results from the coupling of Chern-Simons fields of the
effective theory to the electromagnetic field, so also Hall viscosity is found
to arise from coupling of these fields to the 'metric' of the quadratic kinetic
energy. In this paper I derive new physical insights for Hall viscosity by
using an extended semiclassical approach to compute the conductivity of a
single Landau level in a nonuniform electric field. I demonstrate that the
inhomogeneity of an applied electric field is a viable experimentally tunable
parameter for altering the metric, and hence creating strain in the QH state.
Using these results, I argue that Hall viscosity arises from the shearing of
local cyclotron orbits by the applied nonuniform electric fields.
