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Free fall rate of a spherical particle in an immobile liquid

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A derivation is offered for a semiempirical formula for the drag coefficient of a sphere which is effective over the entire precrisis range, and has not previously been theoretically justified.

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  1. A. D. Al'tshul'
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  2. Yu. A. Voitinskaya
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Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 35, No. 4, pp. 741–742, October, 1978.

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Al'tshul', A.D., Voitinskaya, Y.A. Free fall rate of a spherical particle in an immobile liquid. Journal of Engineering Physics 35, 1258–1259 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00860399

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