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Ok that makes sense. And the shear stress still follows a linear profile, decreasing with increasing thickness (x)? I'm curious though what the profile would look like as the thickness is increased past the distance for yield stress. For the shear stress less than yield stress, I'm guessing it's...

Just one last question for you. Where does the viscosity play into all of this, if at all?

I was just in the middle of writing this up as I thought about it more when you posted your reply: Thinking about it further, I think that doing the vertical force balance would be a good time to make use of that density. So knowing the density and assuming a thickness of x, I can make up a...

I was thinking force might be involved, but how do I go about a vertical force balance. The force, I assume, would be directly a result of gravity so it should = m*g? There doesn't seem to be an m to calculate with but I don't remember much of basic physics unfortunately so I may be a bit off on...

Homework Statement Acrylic latex can be described by a Bingham Plastic model where the yield stress is 11.2 N/m2, a limiting viscosity, m0, of 80 cp and a density of 0.95 g/cm3. What is the maximum thickness of this paint that can be applied to a vertical wall without running. Homework...

Thanks for the reply, I appreciate the help. And I do have BSL as my textbook so it seems that my improper use of the negative sign was understandable.

Homework Statement It's a relatively simple problem I'm sure, but I'm a bit confused on how exactly to go about it: There are three parallel plates with water (viscosity of 0.8807 cp @ 30°C) between plates 1 and 2 (plate order of 1 on bottom, 2 in middle, 3 on top), and toluene (viscosity...