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  • PURPOSE: The purpose of this study is to quantify the motion dynamics of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). METHODS: Three physical models of Newton’s and Stokes’s laws with(out) air resistance in the calm air are used to determine the falling time and velocity regimes of SARS-CoV-2 with(out) a respiratory water droplet of 1 to 2000 micrometers (µm) in diameter of an infected person of 0.5 to 2.6 m in height. RESULTS: The horizontal distance travelled by SARS-CoV-2 in free fall from 1.7 m was 0.88 m due to breathing or talking and 2.94 m due to sneezing or coughing. According to Newton’s laws of motion with air resistance, its falling velocity and time from 1.7 m were estimated at 3.95 × 10(−2) m s(−1) and 43 s, respectively. Large droplets > 100 µm reached the ground from 1.7 m in less than 1.6 s, while the droplets ≥ 30 µm fell within 4.42 s regardless of the human height. Based on Stokes’s law, the falling time of the droplets encapsulating SARS-CoV-2 ranged from 4.26 × 10(−3) to 8.83 × 10(4) s as a function of the droplet size and height. CONCLUSION: The spread dynamics of the COVID-19 pandemic is closely coupled to the falling dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 for which Newton’s and Stokes’s laws appeared to be applicable mostly to the respiratory droplet size ≥ 237.5 µm and ≤ 237.5 µm, respectively. An approach still remains to be desired so as to better quantify the motion of the nano-scale objects.
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  • 10.1007/s40846-020-00575-y
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  • J_Med_Biol_Eng
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  • no-cc
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  • document_parses/pdf_json/430b17c98bde7b34249f3731483335857cbdcdc8.json
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  • document_parses/pmc_json/PMC7571304.xml.json
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  • 33100940.0
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  • Medline; PMC
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  • Falling Dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 as a Function of Respiratory Droplet Size and Human Height
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  • 2020-10-19

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