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Viscosity and Stokes' law
- Main 2026PhysicsSingle correct
If an air bubble of diameter 2 mm rises steadily through a liquid of density 2000 kg/m³ at a rate of 0.5 cm/s, then the coefficient of viscosity of liquid is ________ Poise. (Take m/s²)
- Advanced 2025PhysicsNumerical
A projectile of mass 200 g is launched in a viscous medium at an angle 60° with the horizontal, with an initial velocity of 270 m/s. It experiences a viscous drag force where the drag coefficient kg/s and is the instantaneous velocity of the projectile. The projectile hits a vertical wall after 2 s. Taking , the horizontal distance of the wall from the point of projection (in m) is _____.
- Advanced 2024PhysicsMultiple correct
A table tennis ball has radius and mass . It is slowly pushed down into a swimming pool to a depth of below the water surface and then released from rest. It emerges from the water surface at speed , without getting wet, and rises up to a height . Which of the following option(s) is(are) correct?
[Given: , , density of water , viscosity of water Pa-s.]
- Main 2022PhysicsSingle correct
The terminal velocity () of the spherical rain drop depends on the radius (r) of the spherical rain drop as :
- Main 2022PhysicsInteger
The velocity of upper layer of water in a river is . Shearing stress between horizontal layers of water is . Depth of the river is ______ m. (Co-efficient of viscosity of water is Pa.s)
- Main 2022PhysicsSingle correct
If is the density and is coefficient of viscosity of fluid which flows with a speed in the pipe of diameter d, the correct formula for Reynolds number is :
- Main 2022PhysicsSingle correct
Given below are two statements : One is labelled as Assertion A and the other is labelled as Reason R.
Assertion A : Product of Pressure (P) and time (t) has the same dimension as that of coeffcient of viscosity.
Reason R : Coefficient of viscosity
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
- Main 2022PhysicsSingle correct
A water drop of radius 1 m falls in a situation where the effect of buoyant force is negligible. Co-efficient of viscosity of air is Nsm and its density is negligible as compared to that of water gm. Terminal velocity of the water drop is :
(Take acceleration due to gravity ms)
- Main 2022PhysicsInteger
A small spherical ball of radius 0.1 mm and density kg m falls freely under gravity through a distance before entering a tank of water. If, after entering the water the velocity of ball does not change and it continue to fall with same constant velocity inside water, then the value of will be ______ m
(Given ms, viscosity of water N-sm).
- Main 2022PhysicsSingle correct
An air bubble of negligible weight having radius r rises steadily through a solution of density at speed . The coefficient of viscosity of the solution is given by :
- Main 2022PhysicsInteger
The diameter of an air bubble which was initially 2 mm, rises steadily through a solution of density 1750 kg m at the rate of 0.35 cms. The coefficient of viscosity of the solution is ______ poise (in nearest integer). (the density of air is negligible).
- Advanced 2020PhysicsMultiple correct
As shown schematically in the figure, two vessels contain water solutions (at temperature ) of potassium permanganate () of different concentrations and molecules per unit volume with . When they are connected by a tube of small length and cross-sectional area , starts to diffuse from the left to the right vessel through the tube. Consider the collection of molecules to behave as dilute ideal gases and the difference in their partial pressure in the two vessels causing the diffusion. The speed of the molecules is limited by the viscous force on each molecule, where is a constant. Neglecting all terms of the order , which of the following is/are correct? ( is the Boltzmann constant)
- Advanced 2018PhysicsMultiple correct
Consider a thin square plate floating on a viscous liquid in a large tank. The height of the liquid in the tank is much less than the width of the tank. The floating plate is pulled horizontally with a constant velocity . Which of the following statements is (are) true?
- Main 2017PhysicsSingle correct
Two tubes of radii and , and lengths and , respectively, are connected in series and a liquid flows through each of them in stream line conditions. and are pressure differences across the two tubes. If is and is , then the radius will be equal to :
- Advanced 2016PhysicsInteger
Consider two solid spheres P and Q each of density and diameters 1 cm and 0.5 cm, respectively. Sphere P is dropped into a liquid of density and viscosity poiseulles. Sphere Q is dropped into a liquid of density and viscosity poiseulles. The ratio of the terminal velocities of P and Q is
- Main 2016PhysicsSingle correct
Which of the following option correctly describes the variation of the speed and acceleration '' of a point mass falling vertically in a viscous medium that applies a force F = −kv, where 'k' is a constant, on the body ? (Graphs are schematic and not drawn to scale)
- Advanced 2015PhysicsMultiple correct
Two spheres and of equal radii have densities and , respectively. The spheres are connected by a massless string and placed in liquids and of densities and and viscosities and , respectively. They float in equilibrium with the sphere in and sphere in and the string being taut (see figure). If sphere alone in has terminal velocity and alone in has terminal velocity , then
- Main 2015PhysicsSingle correct
If it takes 5 minutes to fill a 15 litre bucket from a water tap of diameter cm then the Reynolds number for the flow is (density of water = kg/m and viscosity of water = Pa.s) close to :
- Main 2014PhysicsSingle correct
The amplitude of a simple pendulum, oscillating in air with a small spherical bob, decreases from 10 cm to 8 cm in 40 seconds. Assuming that Stokes law is valid, and ratio of the coefficient of viscosity of air to that of carbon dioxide is 1.3, the time in which amplitude of this pendulum will reduce from 10 cm to 5 cm in carbondioxide will be close to (, ).
- Main 2014PhysicsSingle correct
The velocity of water in a river is 18 km/hr near the surface. If the river is 5 m deep, find the shearing stress between the horizontal layers of water. The co-efficient of viscosity of water poise.