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

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

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

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

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  4. State the Archimedes principle.

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

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

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

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

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

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  10. Why does soap help cleaning clothes?

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

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

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

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  14. Define surface tension. Show that this is a molecular phenomenon.

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

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  16. Derive an expression for the capillary rise of a liquid.

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  17. Derive an expression for the excess pressure inside a soap bubble. Wha...

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  18. Discuss the condition for determination of the shape of liquid meniscu...

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  19. explain what is meant by surface energy of a liquid. Show that surface...

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  20. The excess of pressure inside a soap bubble than that of the outer pre...

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