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AIM

To determine the coefficient of viscosity of a given liquid by measuring the terminal velocity of a spherical
body
APPARATUS AND MATERIAL REQUIRED
A wide bore tube of transparent glass/acrylic (approximately 1.25 m long and 4 cm diameter), steel balls of
known diameters between 1.0 mm to 3 mm, transparent viscous liquid (glycerine), laboratory stand, rubber
bands, two rubber stoppers (one with a hole), stop clock and metre scale.
PRINCIPLE
When a spherical body of radius r and density σ falls freely through a viscous liquid of density ρ and viscosity
η, with terminal velocity v. It is given by

PROCEDURE
1.Find the least count of the stop-watch.
2. Note the room temperature, using a thermometer.
3. Take a wide bore tube of transparent glass. Fit a rubber stopper at one end of the wide tube and ensure that it
is airtight. Fill it with the given transparent viscous liquid (say glycerine).
4. Put three rubber bands A, B, and C around the wide bore tube dividing it into four portions such that AB =
BC, each about 30 cm. The rubber band A should be around 40 cm below the mouth of the wide bore tube
(length sufficient to allow the ball to attain terminal velocity).
5. Drop the ball into the tube to fall freely. The ball, after passing through the inlet tube, will fall along the axis
of the liquid column.
6. Take two stop watches and start both of them simultaneously as the spherical ball passes through the rubber
band A. Stop one the watches as the ball passes through the band B. Allow the second stop-watch to continue
and stop it when the ball crosses the band C
7. Note the times t 1 and t 2 as indicated by the two stop watches, t 1 is then the time taken by the falling ball to
travel from A to B and t 2 is the time taken by it in falling from A to C.
8.Repeat the experiment for other balls of different diameters.
OBSERVATIONS
1. Density of material of steel balls σ = ... kg m-3
2.. Density of the viscous liquid used in the tube = ... kgm–3
3.

RESULT
The coefficient of viscosity of the given viscous liquid = ... Nsm–2

PRECAUTIONS AND SOURCES OF ERROR


1. In order to minimise the effects, although small, on the value of terminal velocity (more precisely on the
value of viscous drag, force F), the radius of the wide bore tube containing the experimental viscous liquid
should be much larger than the radius of the falling spherical balls.
2. The steel balls should fall without touching the sides of the tube.
3. The ball should be dropped gently in the tube containing viscous/ liquid.

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