  This paper describes a simple and inexpensive method of measuring viscosity
of a Newtonian fluid using the ball drop technique and an inexpensive point and
shoot ~1000 frame per second camera. We successfully measured the viscosity of
glycerol and glycerol-water mixture with high precision. We used three
different size copper balls of diameters 0.8 mm, 1.59 mm, and 2.38 mm to check
the accuracy of the measured viscosity in different concentrations of
glycerol-water mixer solutions ranging from 50% to 100% (pure glycerol). Our
measurements are in excellent agreement with the measurements conducted by
other standard techniques. The simple and inexpensive techniques and physics we
present in this manuscript can be employed to create a simple viscosity
measurement setup for learning about complex fluid mechanics even at the
undergraduate laboratory and high school teaching laboratory.
