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Sticky Liquids BIO
The drag force on an object moving in a liquid is quite different from that in air. Drag forces in air are largely the result of the object having to push the air out of its way as it moves. For an object moving slowly through a liquid, however, the drag force is mostly due to the viscosity of the liquid, a measure of how much resistance to flow the fluid has. Honey, which drizzles slowly out of its container, has a much higher viscosity than water, which flow's fairly freely.
The viscous drag force in a liquid depends on the shape of the object, but there is a simple result called Stokes’s law for the drag on a sphere. The drag force on a sphere of radius r moving at speed v through a fluid with viscosity η is
At small scales, viscous drag becomes very important To a paramecium (figure 1.2), a single-celled animal that can propel itself through water with fine hairs on its body, swimming through water feels like swimming through honey would to you. We can model a paramecium as a sphere of diameter
Figure 1.2
If the paramecium doubles its swimming speed, how does this change the drag force?
A. The drag force decreases by a factor of 2.
B. The drag force is unaffected.
C. The drag force increases by a factor of 2.
D. The drag force increases by a factor of 4.
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