Viscosity of cooking oil: From kitchen to classroom

Abstract

This paper presents a fun and relatable classroom experiment to measure the viscosity of cooking oil using household tools and ingredients like kitchen scales, mugs, and dried peas. The experiment requires no formal training in math or physics, and helps to build intuition about friction, Newton's laws of motion, and Archimedes' buoyancy law.

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