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Drag Force on a String Fastened to a Sphere Moving in a Viscous Fluid |
| Shan-tarng Chen |
| Department of Physics, National Chung-Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan |
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Shan-tarng Chen 1996 Chin. Phys. Lett. 13 682-685 |
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Abstract The viscous drag force acting on a thin cotton string fastened to a sphere moving in glycerin has been determined by using a photogate apparatus, showing that the force acting on the string agrees with a simplified 2-dimensional theory for string Reynolds’ number Ns < 0.008.
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47.15.Gf
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Published: 01 September 1996
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