{"id":187711,"date":"2025-02-06T05:20:39","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T05:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learnexams.com\/blog\/?p=187711"},"modified":"2025-02-06T05:20:41","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T05:20:41","slug":"milk-has-a-viscosity-of-about-2-1-cp-at-20-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/06\/milk-has-a-viscosity-of-about-2-1-cp-at-20-c\/","title":{"rendered":"Milk has a viscosity of about 2.1 cp at 20 C"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Milk has a viscosity of about 2.1 cp at 20 C. The density of whole milk is about 1.03 g\/cc and milk fat (cream) has a density of about .93 g\/cc and the average drop of cream has an 8 \u03bc diameter. Use Stokes&amp;#39;s law to calculate how long it will take a drop of cream to rise 10 cm. O 12 hr 40 min O 16 hr 45 min 6000 sec O 10 hr 45 min<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-ast-global-color-6-color\"><strong>The Correct Answer and Explanation is <\/strong><\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The correct answer is <strong>16 hours 45 minutes<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Explanation:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>To determine how long it takes for a drop of cream (fat) to rise through milk, we use <strong>Stokes&#8217; Law<\/strong>, which applies to small spheres moving through a viscous fluid. The formula for the terminal velocity of a small sphere in a fluid is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[<br>v = \\frac{2}{9} \\frac{r^2 g (\\rho_m &#8211; \\rho_c)}{\\mu}<br>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>where:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>( v ) = terminal velocity (m\/s)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>( r ) = radius of the drop (m)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>( g ) = gravitational acceleration (( 9.81 ) m\/s\u00b2)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>( \\rho_m ) = density of milk (( 1.03 ) g\/cc = ( 1030 ) kg\/m\u00b3)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>( \\rho_c ) = density of cream (( 0.93 ) g\/cc = ( 930 ) kg\/m\u00b3)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>( \\mu ) = viscosity of milk (( 2.1 ) cP = ( 2.1 \\times 10^{-3} ) Pa\u00b7s)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The given drop of cream has a <strong>diameter<\/strong> of <strong>8 \u03bcm<\/strong> (or ( 8 \\times 10^{-6} ) m), so its <strong>radius<\/strong> is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[<br>r = \\frac{8 \\times 10^{-6}}{2} = 4 \\times 10^{-6} \\text{ m}<br>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Plugging in the values:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[<br>v = \\frac{2}{9} \\times \\frac{(4 \\times 10^{-6})^2 \\times 9.81 \\times (1030 &#8211; 930)}{2.1 \\times 10^{-3}}<br>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[<br>v = 1.66 \\times 10^{-6} \\text{ m\/s}<br>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To rise <strong>10 cm (0.1 m)<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[<br>t = \\frac{0.1}{1.66 \\times 10^{-6}} = 60226.99 \\text{ seconds}<br>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Converting:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[<br>60226.99 \\text{ s} = 16 \\text{ hours } 45 \\text{ minutes}<br>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thus, the correct answer is <strong>16 hours 45 minutes<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Milk has a viscosity of about 2.1 cp at 20 C. The density of whole milk is about 1.03 g\/cc and milk fat (cream) has a density of about .93 g\/cc and the average drop of cream has an 8 \u03bc diameter. Use Stokes&amp;#39;s law to calculate how long it will take a drop of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exams-certification"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}