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Problem 3: Rain Drop

Consider a rain drop ( assumed to be spherical) of diamter D falling in the air

  1. What is the velocity of this rain drop function of?
  2. Find a refrence scale expression for this velocity
  3. Calcualte this velocity for diameter of 1mm and 5 mm?
  4. Are your answers reasonable? If not why?


Yousef Haik
Tue Sep 3 19:47:48 EDT 1996