Friday, April 6, 2012

Settling is what sediments do

Settling is what sediments do.
They fall out.

After I settle,
What will I use to drudge me
Out of the slurry?

I want to fall out.
I'm bored once I land.

Newton and Stokes wrote equations
For the way things settle.
Applied force, drag force, density.

The equations are for free settling,
A single spherical particle
In an infinite fluid.

Free settling doesn’t really exist.
Hindered settling is the only
Settling with practical applications.

I think I hinder my own settling.
I am the container walls
I run into as I spin.

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