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Free surface of a liquid behaves like a stretched membrane. Explain briefly.

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  1. Distinguish between surface tension and surface energy.

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  2. Calculate the excess pressure between inside and outside of soap bubbl...

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  3. Free surface of a liquid behaves like a stretched membrane. Explain br...

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  4. Explain what happens to the energy used to blow a soap bubble ?

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  5. Why a needle may float on clear water but sink when some detergent is ...

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  6. Explain why water wets glass.

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  7. The radius of soap bubble is increased to double its initial size. Cal...

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  8. Show graphically the nature of intermolecular forces when the distance...

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  9. If the radius of capillary tube is doubled, what changes will take pla...

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  10. Explain why the shape of a small mercury drop is spherical.

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  11. State the Archimedes principle.

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  12. A big mercury drop is broken into n identical smaller droplets. Assumi...

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  13. A mercury drop does not wet glass whereas a water drop sticks to glass...

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  14. Explain surface energy. How it is connected with surface tension?

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  15. Find the work done in doubling the diameter of soap bubble.

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  16. Water rises to a height h in a glass capillary tube when dipped vertic...

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  17. Why does soap help cleaning clothes?

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  18. Calculate the excess inside a soap bubble of radius 5mm, given surface...

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  19. Why is it the needle may float on clean water but will sink when some ...

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  20. The capillary rise in a tube is 12cm, when dipped in a given liquid, w...

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