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Mechanical Properties of Fluids
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State Stoke’s law.

Answer

Stoke’s law states that the viscous force acting on a spherical body of radius 'r' moving with velocity 'v' in viscous media of viscosity 'η' is given by,

                             F= – 6πηrv.

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