单词 | Stokes' law |
释义 | Stokes' lawnoun Physics 1A law stating that in fluorescence the wavelength of the emitted radiation is longer than that of the radiation causing it. This is not true in all cases.From Stokes' law, this works out to a thrust of ~ 0.5 pN....
2An expression describing the resisting force on a particle moving through a viscous fluid and showing that a maximum velocity is reached in such cases, e.g. for an object falling under gravity through a fluid.The air bubbles rise through the viscous liquid and the water column above it according to Stokes' law, which describes the rates at which spherically shaped particles (in this case, voids) settle (in this case, float)....
OriginLate 19th century: named after Sir George Stokes (1819–1903), British physicist. |
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