When an object moves through a fluid, as when a ball falls through air or a glass sphere falls through water te fluid exerts a viscous foce F on the object this force tends to slow the object for a small sphere of radius `r` moving is given by stoke's law, `F_(w)=6pietarv`. in this formula `eta` in the coefficient of viscosity of the fluid which is the proportionality constant that determines how much tangential force is required to move a fluid layer at a constant speed v, when the layer has an area A and is located a perpendicular distance z from and immobile surface. the magnitude of the force is given by `F=etaAv//z`. For a viscous fluid to move from location 2 to location 1 along 2 must exceed that at location 1, poiseuilles's law given the volumes flow rate Q that results from such a pressure difference `P_(2)-P_(1)`. The flow rate of expressed by the formula `Q=(piR^(4)(P_(2)-P_(1)))/(8etaL)` poiseuille's law remains valid as long as the fluid flow is laminar. For a sfficiently high speed however the flow becomes turbulent flow is laminar as long as the reynolds number is less than approximately 2000. This number is given by the formula `R_(e)=(2overline(v)rhoR)/(eta)` In which `overline(v)` is the average speed `rho` is the density `eta` is the coefficient of viscosity of the fluid and R is the radius of the pipe. Take the density of water to be `rho=1000kg//m^(3)`
Q. Calculate the highest average speed that blood `(rho~~1000kg//m^(3)`) could have and still remain in laminar flow when it flows through the arorta `(R=8xx10^(-3)m`) Take the coeffiicient of viscosity of blood to be `4xx10^(-3)Pa-s`

Options

A. `0.5m//s`
B. `1.0m//s`
C. 1.5m/s
D. 2.0m/s

Answer

A