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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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संबंधित प्रश्न

The energy of the free surface of a liquid drop is 5π times the surface tension of the liquid. Find the diameter of the drop in C.G.S. system.


Derive an expression for excess pressure inside a drop of liquid.


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 ]


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


A U-shaped wire is dipped in a soap solution and removed. The thin soap film formed between the wire and the light slider supports a weight of 1.5 × 10–2 N (which includes the small weight of the slider). The length of the slider is 30 cm. What is the surface tension of the film?


Figure  (a) shows a thin liquid film supporting a small weight = 4.5 × 10–2 N. What is the weight supported by a film of the same liquid at the same temperature in Fig. (b) and (c)? Explain your answer physically.


Mercury has an angle of contact equal to 140° with soda lime glass. A narrow tube of radius 1.00 mm made of this glass is dipped in a trough containing mercury. By what amount does the mercury dip down in the tube relative to the liquid surface outside? Surface tension of mercury at the temperature of the experiment is 0.465 N m–1. Density of mercury = 13.6 × 103 kg m–3


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).


Define surface tension and surface energy.


The total free surface energy of a liquid drop is `pisqrt2` times the surface tension of the liquid. Calculate the diameter of the drop in S.l. unit.


A body weighs 4.0 kg-wt on the surface of the Earth. What will be its weight on the surface of a plant whose mass is `1/8` th of the mass of the Earth and radius half `(1/2)` of that of the Earth?


Show that the surface tension of a liquid is numerically equal to the surface energy per unit
area.


State any two characteristics of the angle of contact


When a glass capillary tube is dipped at one end in water, water rises in the tube. The gravitational potential energy is thus increased. Is it a violation of conservation of energy?


If a mosquito is dipped into water and released, it is not able to fly till it is dry again. Explain 


The force of surface tension acts tangentially to the surface whereas the force due to air pressure acts perpendicularly on the surface. How is then the force due to excess pressure inside a bubble balanced by the force due to the surface tension?


Water near the bed of a deep river is quiet while that near the surface flows. Give reasons.


A heavy mass is attached to a thin wire and is whirled in a vertical circle. The wire is most likely to break


Air is pushed into a soap bubble of radius r to double its radius. If the surface tension of the soap solution in S, the work done in the process is 


If two soap bubbles of different radii are connected by a tube,


Which of the following graphs may represent the relation between the capillary rise hand the radius r of the capillary?


The properties of a surface are different from those of the bulk liquid because the surface molecules
(a) are smaller than other molecules
(b) acquire charge due to collision from air molecules
(c) find different type of molecules in their range of influence
(d) feel a net force in one direction.


A capillary tube of radius 0.50 mm is dipped vertically in a pot of water. Find the difference between the pressure of the water in the tube 5.0 cm below the surface and the atmospheric pressure. Surface tension of water = 0.075 N m−1.


Find the force exerted by the water on a 2 m2 plane surface of a large stone placed at the bottom of a sea 500 m deep. Does the force depend on the orientation of the surface?


A ferry boat has internal volume 1 m3 and weight 50 kg.(a) Neglecting the thickness of the wood, find the fraction of the volume of the boat immersed in water.(b) If a leak develops in the bottom and water starts coming in, what fraction of the boat's volume will be filled with water before water starts coming in from the sides?  


Derive an expression for capillary rise for a liquid having a concave meniscus.


A drop of mercury of radius 0.2 cm is broken into 8 droplets of the same size. Find the work done if the surface tension of mercury is 435.5 dyn/cm.


The water droplets are spherical in free fall due to ______ 


Water rises to a height of 20 mm in a capillary tube. If the radius made 1/3rd of its previous value, to what height will the water now rise in the tube?  


Obtain an expression for the capillary rise or fall using the forces method.  


Describe an experiment to prove that friction depends on the nature of a surface.


The wettability of a surface by a liquid depends primarily on


Explain elasticity using intermolecular forces.


Define the angle of contact for a given pair of solid and liquid.


Obtain an expression for the excess of pressure inside a

  1. liquid drop
  2. liquid bubble
  3. air bubble

What is capillarity?


Water rises in a capillary tube of radius r upto a height h. The mass of water in a capillary is m. The mass of water that will rise in a capillary of radius `"r"/4` will be ______.


A square frame of each side L is dipped in a soap solution and taken out. The force acting on the film formed is _____.
(T = surface tension of soap solution).


Water rises upto a height h in a capillary tube on the surface of the earth. The value of h will increase, if the experimental setup is kept in [g = acceleration due to gravity]


The upward force of 105 dyne due to surface tension is balanced by the force due to the weight of the water column and 'h' is the height of water in the capillary. The inner circumference of the capillary is ______.

(surface tension of water = 7 × 10-2 N/m)


Why is raindrop spherical in nature?


Is surface tension a vector?


The sap in trees, which consists mainly of water in summer, rises in a system of capillaries of radius r = 2.5 × 10–5 m. The surface tension of sap is T = 7.28 × 10–2 Nm–1 and the angle of contact is 0°. Does surface tension alone account for the supply of water to the top of all trees?


Eight droplets of water each of radius 0.2 mm coalesce into a single drop. Find the decrease in the surface area.


We have three identical perfectly black plates. The temperatures of first and third plate is T and 3T. What is the temperature of second plate if system is in equilibrium?


A drop of water and a soap bubble have the same radii. Surface tension of soap solution is half of that of water. The ratio of excess pressure inside the drop and bubble is ______.


A coaxial cylinder made of glass is immersed in liquid of surface tension ' S'. Radius of inner and outer surface of cylinder are R1 and R2 respectively. Height till which liquid will rise is (Density of liquid is p):


A soap film of surface tension 3 × 10-2 formed in a rectangular frame can support a straw as shown in Fig. If g = 10 ms-12, the mass of the straw is ______.


When one end of the capillary is dipped in water, the height of water column is 'h'. The upward force of 105 dyne due to surface tension is balanced by the force due to the weight of water column. The inner circumference of capillary is ______.

(Surface tension of water = 7 × 10-2 N/m)


Work done to blow a bubble of volume V is W. The work done in blowing a bubble of volume 2V will be ______.


The surface tension of soap solution is 25 × 10-3 Nm-1. The excess of pressure inside a soap bubble of diameter 1 cm is ______.


Find the work done when a drop of mercury of radius 2 mm breaks into 8 equal droplets. [Surface tension of mercury = 0.4855 J/m2].


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