Question: Consider a spherical bacterium, with radius 1.4 m , falling in water at 20 C. Find the terminal speed of the spherical bacterium in meters

Consider a spherical bacterium, with radius 1.4 m , falling in water at 20 C.

Find the terminal speed of the spherical bacterium in meters per second, ignoring the buoyant force on the bacterium and assuming Stokes' law for the viscous force. You will first need to note that the drag force is equal to the weight at terminal velocity. Take the density of the bacterium to be 1.2 103 kg/m3. The viscosity of water at 20 C is 1.002 10-3 kg/ms and the density is 998 kg/m3.

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