for if we write this equation in the form
and then plot the observed values of
as ordinates and the corresponding values of
as abscissae we should get a straight line, provided our corrected form of Stokes’s Law (15) ([p. 101]) is adequate for the correct representation of the phenomena of fall of the droplets within the range of values of
in which the experiments lie. If no such linear relation is found, then an equation of the form of (15) is not adequate for the description of the phenomena within this range. As a matter of fact, a linear relation was found to exist for a much wider range of values of