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The importance of Stokes' law is illustrated by the fact that it played a critical role in the research leading to at least three Nobel Prizes. [5] Stokes' law is important for understanding the swimming of microorganisms and sperm; also, the sedimentation of small particles and organisms in water, under the force of gravity. [5]
In acoustics, Stokes's law of sound attenuation is a formula for the attenuation of sound in a Newtonian fluid, such as water or air, due to the fluid's viscosity.It states that the amplitude of a plane wave decreases exponentially with distance traveled, at a rate α given by = where η is the dynamic viscosity coefficient of the fluid, ω is the sound's angular frequency, ρ is the fluid ...
The derivation of Stokes' law, which is used to calculate the drag force on small particles, assumes a no-slip condition which is no longer correct at high Knudsen numbers. The Cunningham slip correction factor allows predicting the drag force on a particle moving a fluid with Knudsen number between the continuum regime and free molecular flow.
Stokes' formula can refer to: Stokes' law for friction force in a viscous fluid. Stokes' law (sound attenuation) law describing attenuation of sound in Newtonian liquids.
In vector calculus and differential geometry the generalized Stokes theorem (sometimes with apostrophe as Stokes' theorem or Stokes's theorem), also called the Stokes–Cartan theorem, [1] is a statement about the integration of differential forms on manifolds, which both simplifies and generalizes several theorems from vector calculus.
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Sir George Gabriel Stokes, 1st Baronet, (/ s t oʊ k s /; 13 August 1819 – 1 February 1903) was an Irish mathematician and physicist.Born in County Sligo, Ireland, Stokes spent all of his career at the University of Cambridge, where he was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics from 1849 until his death in 1903.
Print/export Download as PDF; ... Appearance. move to sidebar hide. Stokes equation may refer to: the Airy equation; the ... Stokes law This page was last ...