Stokes Laws

Stokes' law can be the name of the following theorems or laws named after the physicist and mathematician George Gabriel Stokes :

• Navier-Stokes equations for fluid mechanics
• Stokes equation , a simplification of the Navier-Stokes equations for creeping flows
• Stokes equation for determining the sedimentation rate
• Stokes' law on the dependence of the frictional force of spherical bodies
• Stokes ' theorem , also Stokes' integral theorem
• Stokes-Poincaré theorem on the gravity potential of constantly rotating liquids
• Stokes shift to the fluorescence wavelengths

This is a disambiguation page for differentiating between several terms identified with the same word.