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Fluid Viscosity via Falling Ball Method

This document is a physics lab report on determining fluid viscosity using a falling ball viscometer. It includes an introduction, purpose, description of the apparatus with a diagram, theory behind the method, experimental procedure, and a table to record measurements and calculations of dynamic and kinematic viscosity. The experiment involves measuring the time it takes a ball to fall through a fluid sample between two reference points and using that to calculate viscosity based on the densities of the ball and fluid.

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Fluid Viscosity via Falling Ball Method

This document is a physics lab report on determining fluid viscosity using a falling ball viscometer. It includes an introduction, purpose, description of the apparatus with a diagram, theory behind the method, experimental procedure, and a table to record measurements and calculations of dynamic and kinematic viscosity. The experiment involves measuring the time it takes a ball to fall through a fluid sample between two reference points and using that to calculate viscosity based on the densities of the ball and fluid.

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‫وصاسج التعلٍم العالً والثحث العلمً‬

‫جامعح االوثاس‬
‫كلٍح الهىذسح‬
‫قسم الهىذسح الكٍمٍائٍح والثتشوكٍمٍائٍح‬
‫المشحلح االولى‬
‫مختثش الفٍضٌاء‬

‫المجمىعح‪:‬‬
‫أمل مجٍذ مطش‬ ‫‪-1‬‬
‫أستثشق احمذ حسه‬ ‫‪-2‬‬
‫شهالء معه‬ ‫‪-3‬‬
‫صٌىة عثذالشصاق شذهان‬ ‫‪-4‬‬
‫مشٌم ٌىسف سمٍط‬ ‫‪-5‬‬
‫عزساء جمعه‬ ‫‪-6‬‬
‫مىه هللا مجهذ‬ ‫‪-7‬‬
‫فاطمه احمذ طه‬ ‫‪-8‬‬
‫سحاب تاسم‬ ‫‪-9‬‬

‫االستار المششف‬
‫د‪ .‬سهى مهذي‬
‫تاسٌخ تسلٍم التجشتح ‪2023/2/2:‬‬ ‫تاسٌخ اجشاء التجشتح ‪2023/1/19 :‬‬
Physics Lab. Exp. Name: Determination of Fluid Viscosity
Report No.: 4 with Falling Ball Viscometer

1- Introduction:

2- Purpose:
To determine the viscosity of a fluid with falling ball viscometer.

3- Apparatus
Figure 1 shows the Falling ball viscometer. (Viswanath et al, 2007).

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Physics Lab. Exp. Name: Determination of Fluid Viscosity
Report No.: 4 with Falling Ball Viscometer

Fig.1 Falling ball viscometer (Viswanath et al, 2007).

4- Theory:

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Physics Lab. Exp. Name: Determination of Fluid Viscosity
Report No.: 4 with Falling Ball Viscometer

5- Procedure:
1. Consider the system shown in Fig. 1, a sphere (any other shape and size can be
used) is left to fall through a homogeneous fluid. If the motion of the sphere is
sufficiently slow, the inertia terms become negligible.
2. The tube A, closed at the bottom, is filled with the sample to be tested. The
tube A is placed inside a constant temperature bath, that could be maintained
within ± 0.1oC, for about 1 hr.
3. The sphere is introduced into the tube along the axis by means of a guide tube.
4. The position of the sphere is followed and the time at which it passes the
reference marks a and b is noted.
5. The density of both the liquid and the sphere at the test temperature should be
determined as accurately as possible.
6. Dynamic and kinematic viscosities at a given temperature are then calculated
from Equations 2 & 3 respectively. .

Data source: Viswanath D.S, Ghosh T.K., Prasad D.H. L., Dutt N.K. and Rani
K.Y., (2007), “Viscosity of Liquids: Theory, Estimation, Experiment, and Data”,
Springer, P.O. Box 17, 3300 AA Dordrecht, The Netherlands.
6- Measurements and calculation:
The following table shows the result of the experiment.

6.1 Falling ball and fluid density measurement

Dynamic Kinematic
Fall
Fluid’s Ball Temp. viscosity viscosity
distance
name No. (C) (kg/m•s) (η ) (m2/s) (ν )
(m)
From Eq. 2 From Eq. 3

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