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Problem 1.10: Given: Find: Solution

The document provides data and formulas to calculate the diameter of gasoline droplets that take 1 second to fall 10 inches. It gives the drag force formula, data for variables like fluid properties, and the equation of motion. It then integrates the equation of motion twice to obtain equations relating position and velocity to time. Iterating these equations while substituting known values and the desired time of 1 second allows calculating the droplet diameter as 4.30×10-3 inches.

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Problem 1.10: Given: Find: Solution

The document provides data and formulas to calculate the diameter of gasoline droplets that take 1 second to fall 10 inches. It gives the drag force formula, data for variables like fluid properties, and the equation of motion. It then integrates the equation of motion twice to obtain equations relating position and velocity to time. Iterating these equations while substituting known values and the desired time of 1 second allows calculating the droplet diameter as 4.30×10-3 inches.

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Problem 1.

10

[Difficulty: 4] NOTE: Drag formula is in error: It should be: FD = 3 V d

Given: Find: Solution:

Data on sphere and formula for drag. Diameter of gasoline droplets that take 1 second to fall 10 in. Use given data and data in Appendices; integrate equation of motion by separating variables.

FD = 3Vd a = dV/dt Mg

The data provided, or available in the Appendices, are:


7 lbf s

= 4.48 10

ft

w = 1.94

slug ft
3

SG gas = 0.72

gas = SGgas w

gas = 1.40 dV dt

slug ft
3

Newton's 2nd law for the sphere (mass M) is (ignoring buoyancy effects) dV so g 3 d M V
3 d t M 1 e

= M g 3 V d

= dt

Integrating twice and using limits

V( t) =

M g 3 d

3 d t M M x( t) = t + e 3 d 3 d
M g
3

1 1

Replacing M with an expression involving diameter d

d M = gas 6

18 t 2 gas d g gas d gas d2 x( t) = t + e 18 18


2

This equation must be solved for d so that x ( 1 s) = 10 in. The answer can be obtained from manual iteration, or by using Excel's Goal Seek. d = 4.30 10
1 0.75 3

in
10 7.5

x (in)

0.5 0.25 0 0.025 0.05 0.075 0.1

x (in)

5 2.5 0 0.25 0.5 0.75 1

t (s)

t (s)

Note That the particle quickly reaches terminal speed, so that a simpler approximate solution would be to solve Mg = 3 Vd for d , with V = 0.25 m/s (allowing for the fact that M is a function of d )!

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