VIT Engineering VIT Engineering Solved Paper-2009

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    Eight spherical rain drops of the same mass and radius are falling down with a terminal speed of\[6\text{ }cm-{{s}^{-1}}\]. If they coalesce to form one big drop, what will be the terminal speed of bigger drop? (Neglect the buoyancy of the air)

    A)  \[1.5\text{ }cm-{{s}^{-1}}\]

    B)  \[6\text{ }c{{m}^{-1}}\]

    C)  \[24\text{ }cm-{{s}^{-1}}\]

    D)  \[32\text{ }cm-{{s}^{-1}}\]  

    Correct Answer: C

    Solution :

    Let now radius of big drop is R. Then,        \[\frac{4}{3}\pi {{R}^{3}}=\frac{4}{3}\times \pi {{r}^{3}}.8\] \[R=2r\] where r is radius of small drops. Now, terminal velocity of drop in liquid. \[{{v}_{e}}=\frac{2}{9}\times \frac{{{r}^{2}}}{\eta }(\rho -\sigma )g\] where \[\eta \] is coefficient of viscosity and p is density of drop a is density of liquid. Terminal speed drop is \[6\text{ }cm\text{ }{{s}^{-1}}\] \[\therefore \] \[6=\frac{2}{9}\times \frac{{{r}^{2}}}{\eta }(\rho -\sigma )g\]         ...(i) Let terminal velocity becomes v after coalesce, then \[v=\frac{2}{9}\frac{{{R}^{2}}}{\eta }(\rho -\sigma )g\]        ?..(ii) Dividing Eq. (i) by Eq. (ii), we get \[\frac{6}{v}=\frac{\frac{2}{9}\frac{{{r}^{2}}}{\eta }(\rho -\sigma )g}{\frac{2}{9}\frac{{{R}^{2}}}{\eta }(\rho -\sigma )g}\] or \[\frac{6}{v}=\frac{{{r}^{2}}}{{{(2r)}^{2}}}\] or \[v=24cm\,{{s}^{-1}}\]


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