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Cuningham's formula for the force on a sphere moving within a larger concentric spherical boundary is extended to cover a general state of motion of the fluid between them.
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Young, G. A generalization of Cunningham's extension of Stoke's law for the force on a sphere. Bulletin of Mathematical Biophysics 2, 105–108 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02478174
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