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HandWiki. Stokes's Law. Encyclopedia. Available online: https://encyclopedia.pub/entry/36261 (accessed on 04 October 2026).
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In 1851, George Gabriel Stokes derived an expression, now known as Stokes's law, for the frictional force – also called drag force – exerted on spherical objects with very small Reynolds numbers in a viscous fluid. Stokes's law is derived by solving the Stokes flow limit for small Reynolds numbers of the Navier–Stokes equations.
frictional force
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