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Why is the surface tension of paints and lubricating oils kept low?

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Why is the surface tension of paints and lubricating oils kept low?

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The surface tension of paints and lubricating oils is kept low so that they can spread over large areas easily and quickly.

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अध्याय 2: Mechanical Properties of Fluids - Exercises [पृष्ठ ५४]

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बालभारती Physics [English] Standard 12 Maharashtra State Board
अध्याय 2 Mechanical Properties of Fluids
Exercises | Q 2.1 | पृष्ठ ५४

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Angle of contact for the pair of pure water with clean glass is _______.


A raindrop of diameter 4 mm is about to fall on the ground. Calculate the pressure inside the raindrop. [Surface tension of water T = 0.072 N/m, atmospheric pressure = 1.013 x 105 N/m2 ]


Define the angle of contact.


Explain why Surface tension of a liquid is independent of the area of the surface


Explain why Water with detergent dissolved in it should have small angles of contact.


Explain why A drop of liquid under no external forces is always spherical in shape


What is the excess pressure inside a bubble of soap solution of radius 5.00 mm, given that the surface tension of soap solution at the temperature (20 °C) is 2.50 × 10–2 N m–1? If an air bubble of the same dimension were formed at depth of 40.0 cm inside a container containing the soap solution (of relative density 1.20), what would be the pressure inside the bubble? (1 atmospheric pressure is 1.01 × 105 Pa).


The total energy of free surface of a liquid drop is 2π times the surface tension of the liquid. What is the diameter of the drop? (Assume all terms in SI unit).


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Frictional force between solids operates even when they do not move with respect to each other. Do we have viscous force acting between two layers even if there is no relative motion?


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