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1) The document reports on an experiment measuring the viscosity of a liquid using Stokes's method. 2) The experiment uses steel balls of various sizes dropped through a cylinder of liquid, and measures the terminal velocity to calculate viscosity. 3) Key steps are measuring the steel ball diameters and fall times, calculating density of balls and liquid, and using Stokes's equation to determine viscosity from these values and measurements.

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Report Lab 5

1) The document reports on an experiment measuring the viscosity of a liquid using Stokes's method. 2) The experiment uses steel balls of various sizes dropped through a cylinder of liquid, and measures the terminal velocity to calculate viscosity. 3) Key steps are measuring the steel ball diameters and fall times, calculating density of balls and liquid, and using Stokes's equation to determine viscosity from these values and measurements.

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REPORT LAB 5:

MEASURING THE VISCOSITY OF A LIQUID USING STOKES’S METHOD


Class: …….…. / Group: ……Team:………. Lecturer’s comment
Full name:
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2) ………………………………………......
3) ………………………………………......
4) ………………………………………......
5) ………………………………………......

I. Aims/Purposes
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II. Apparatus, Methods, and Procedure
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III. Equations
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IV. Experimental data
A. Small steel balls
Table 1
- Accuracy of micrometer:
0.01 (mm) - Density of steel ball
- Accuracy of chronometer: ρ = ....±.... (kg/m3)
0.001(sec) - Density of lubricant oil depended
- Diameter of cylinder: on the room temperature:
D = 35.00 ±0.02 (mm) σ =895 ± 89 (kg/m3)
- Room temperature: * Distance between two sensors:
T ℃ = 30 ± 1 (℃) L = ....±.... (m)
d (mm) d (mm) t (sec) t (sec)
1
…
10
Average
B. Big steel balls: Similar table as for small steel balls.
Note: Absolute error of d , m, t , L is the total errors induced by instrumental errors
and random errors.
V. Calculation works
Density of steel ball:
m
ρ=
1
π d3
6
∆ ρ ∆ π ∆m ∆d
= + +3
ρ π m d
Viscosity of liquid:
1 ¿
η= ( ρ−σ ) d 2> ¿
18
(
L 1+2.4
d
D )
Δ η Δ ρ+ Δσ Δ g Δt Δ L
η
=
ρ−σ
+
g
+ +
t
+
1
L D+2.4 d
( 2 D+2.4 d )
Δd
d [
+2.4 d
ΔD
D ]
Results: The viscosity and its uncertainty for the experiment with the small steel
ball and big steel ball.
Extra work: Using t-Student distribution for calculating the uncertainty

√
n

∑ ∆ η2i
i=1
Δη=± , n=10
n ( n−1 )
The correction with Student coefficient, st for α =0.95 and n=10 has to be done and
the final results should be written as η=η ± ( s t ∆ η ) (kg/ms)

VI. Answer the questions

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