A steel ball of radius 1.0 mm falling through glycerine reaches a terminal speed of 2.0 cm s⁻¹. What terminal speed will a ball of the same steel, of radius 3.0 mm, reach in the same glycerine (Stokes' law assumed to hold)?

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