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MORE than one hundred years ago, the French philosopher Coulomb caused a disc suspended by a torsion wire to oscillate in a vessel of liquid, arid lie thus ascertained that the resistance to various bodies under such circumstances, when the movement is a slow one, varies directly as the velocity of the motion. This law of resistance, it should be noted, is quite contrary to that of the friction between solid bodies as investigated by General Morin. Colonel Beaufoy, Froude, and others, however, found that, at higher velocities, the resistance varied more nearly as the square of the velocity. The difference of the two conditions in which the variation was directly, or, as the higher power, undoubtedly represented on the one hand the condition of water in which the mere viscosity came into play, resisting the shearing stress of the layers in passing, over each other, and on the other hand the condition when the breaking up of the water into eddying motion caused the resistance to become much greater.
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HELE-SHAW, H. The Flow of Water. Nature 58, 34–36 (1898). https://doi.org/10.1038/058034a0
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