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The 19 pages that link to Stokes' law, each with the reason it gives.

• ViscosityRelated: The law uses viscosity to predict resistance on particles settling or moving through fluids.

• SedimentationRelated: It predicts settling speed for small particles under conditions where viscous drag dominates.

• Grain sizeRelated: It helps explain why small grains settle more slowly than larger grains in water.

• Laminar flowRelated: Its assumptions describe motion in a low-Reynolds-number regime where flow is laminar.

• Terminal velocityRelated: It predicts terminal speed for tiny spheres in the low-Reynolds-number regime.

• CentrifugationRelated: Its assumptions help explain how particle size, density contrast, and viscosity affect sedimentation.

• Newtonian fluidRelated: It gives a canonical drag prediction when the surrounding Newtonian flow has very low Reynolds number.

• DragBroader topic: It gives a precise drag result in the low-Reynolds-number limit.

• ElectrophoresisRelated: Viscous drag helps set the terminal speed of particles in free-solution electrophoresis.

• CentrifugeRelated: It helps predict how particle size and fluid viscosity affect separation speed.

• Sediment depositionRelated: It predicts settling rates for fine particles in calm water.

• SuspensionRelated: It predicts how particle size, density, and fluid viscosity affect settling speed.

• Gravity separationRelated: It predicts how particle size and density affect settling speed in dilute suspensions.

• SiltRelated: It approximates how particle size affects the settling of fine silt in still water.

• Dynamic viscosityRelated: The drag is proportional to dynamic viscosity in the low-Reynolds-number regime.

• Robert MillikanRelated: It helped relate an oil droplet’s motion to its size and weight.

• Oil-drop experimentRelated: Millikan inferred droplet radii from their terminal speeds using viscous drag.

• Archimedes numberRelated: At low particle Reynolds number, it provides a settling regime that the Archimedes number helps identify.

• Sir George StokesBroader topic: It quantifies the resistance experienced by a sphere in creeping flow.