Write one of the practical use of viscosity.
Which falls faster, big rain drops or small rain drops ?
Small water droplets of radius $0.01 \mathrm{~mm}$ are formed in the upper atmosphere and falling with a terminal velocity of $10 \mathrm{~cm} / \mathrm{s}$. Due to condensation, if $8 \mathrm{such}$ droplets are coalesced and formed a larger drop, the new terminal velocity will be ........... $\mathrm{cm} / \mathrm{s}$.
A solid sphere, of radius $R$ acquires a terminal velocity $\nu_1 $ when falling (due to gravity) through a viscous fluid having a coefficient of viscosity $\eta $. The sphere is broken into $27$ identical solid spheres. If each of these spheres acquires a terminal velocity, $\nu_2$, when falling through the same fluid, the ratio $(\nu_1/\nu_2)$ equals
$1$ poiseille $=$ .......... poise
Define coefficient of viscosity.