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ERIC Number: EJ956437
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2011-Nov
Pages: 4
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ISSN: ISSN-0031-9120
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Determining the Viscosity of Liquids Using an Extended Falling Ball Method
Houari, Ahmed
Physics Education, v46 n6 p688-691 Nov 2011
In this article, I will extend the falling ball method to measure the viscosity of liquids regardless of the degree of their viscosity. For this, I will show that one can obtain a measurement of the terminal velocity of a falling spherical ball in a viscous liquid by solving numerically the equation of motion which describes the dynamics of the ball from the beginning to the end of the fall. The present numerical approach is proposed here particularly for measuring the viscosity of weakly viscous liquids using the falling ball viscometer. (Contains 2 figures and 1 table.)
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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