Since Galileo used his pulse to measure the time period of a swinging chandelier in the 17th
\ncentury, pendulums have fascinated scientists. It was not until Stokes’ (1851 Camb. Phil. Soc. 9
\n8\u2013106)\u00a0(whose interest was spurred by the pendulur time pieces of the mid 19th century) treatise on
\nviscous flow that a theoretical framework for the drag on a sphere at low Reynolds number was laid
\ndown. Stokes’ famous drag law has been used to determine two fundamental physical constants\u2014the
\ncharge on an electron and Avogadro’s constant\u2014and has been used in theories which have won three
\nNobel prizes. Considering its illustrious history it is then not surprising that the flow past a
\nsphere and its two-dimensional analog, the flow past a cylinder, form the starting point of teaching
\nflow past a rigid body in undergraduate level fluid mechanics courses. Usually starting with the
\ntwo-dimensional potential flow past a cylinder, students progress to the three-dimensional potential
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