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Important Questions on Mechanical Properties of Fluids

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Calculate the work done in increasing the radius of a soap bubble in air from 1 cm to 2 cm. The surface tension of the soap solution is 30 dyne/cm. ( π= 3.142)

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If a drop of liquid breaks into smaller droplets, it results in lowering of temperature of the droplets. Let a drop of radius R, break into N small droplets each of radius r, then decrease (drop) in temperature Q (given, specific heat of liquid drop=S and surface tension =T )
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Work done in increasing the size of a soap bubble from a radius of 3 cm to 5 cm is nearly (surface tension of soap solution =0.05Nm-1)
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A thin metal wire of density ρ floats on water surface horizontally. If it is NOT to sink in water then maximum radius of wire is proportional to ( T= surface tension of water, g= gravitational acceleration)
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A soap bubble having radius of 1 mm is blown from a detergent solution having a surface tension of 2.5×10-2N m-1. The pressure inside the bubble equals at a point Z0 below the free surface of water in a container. Taking g=10 m s-2, density of water =103 kg m-3, the value of Z0 is
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A large number of liquid drops each of radius r coalesce to form a single drop of radius R. The energy released in the process is converted into kinetic energy of the big drop so formed. The speed of the big drop is (Surface tension of liquid T, Density ρ)
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A wire of length 10 cm is gently placed horizontally on the surface of water having a surface tension of 75×10-3 N m-1. What force is required to just pull up the wire from the water surface?
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A big water drop is formed by the combination of n small water drops of equal radii. The ratio of the surface energy of n drops to the surface energy of the big drop is
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A small spherical droplet of density d is floating exactly half immersed in a liquid of density ρ and surface tension T. The radius of the droplet is (take note that the surface tension applies an upward force on the droplet):
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Two mercury drops (each of radius r) merge to form a bigger drop. The surface energy of the bigger drop, if T is the surface tension, is
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A rectangular film of liquid is extended from (4 cm×2 cm) to (5 cm×4 cm). If the work done is 3×10-4 J, the value of the surface tension of the liquid is
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Assume that a drop of a liquid evaporates by a decrease in its surface energy so that its temperature remains unchanged. The minimum radius of the drop for this to be possible is. (The surface tension is T, the density of the liquid is ρ and L is its latent heat of vaporisation.)
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Consider a bowl filled with water on which some black paper powder has been sprinkled uniformly. Now a drop of liquid soap is added at the center of the surface of the water. The picture of the surface immediately after this will look like
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A soap bubble of radius r is blown up to form a bubble of radius 2r under isothermal conditions. If σ is the surface tension of the soap solution, the energy spent in the process is
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When one end of the capillary is dipped in water, the height of the water column is h. The upward force of 105 dyne due to surface tension is balanced by the force due to the weight of the water column. The inner circumference of the capillary is
(Surface tension of water =7×10-2 N m-1)
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When water is filled carefully in a glass, one can fill it to a height h above the rim of the glass due to the surface tension of water. To calculate h just before water starts flowing, model the shape of the water above the rim as a disc of thickness h having semicircular edges, as shown schematically in the figure. When the pressure of water at the bottom of this disc exceeds what can be withstood due to the surface tension, the water surface breaks near the rim and water starts flowing from there. If the density of water, its surface tension and the acceleration due to gravity are 103 kg m-3,0.07 N m-1 and 10 m s-2 respectively, the value of h (in mm) is ________.

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The following observations were taken for determining surface tension T of water by capillary method:

diameter of capillary, D=1.25×10-2 m

rise of water, h=1.45×10-2 m

Using g=9.80 m s-2 and the simplified relation T=rhg2×103 N m-1 the possible error in surface tension is closest to:
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The radius R of the soap bubble is doubled under isothermal condition. If T be the surface tension of the soap bubble, the work done in doing so is given by