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The force exerted by surface tension on the free surface

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Important Questions on Surface Tension

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The force required to separate two glass plates of area 10-2m2 with a film of water 0.05mm thick between them, is (Surface tension of water is 70×10-3N m-1  

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A liquid is contained in a vertical tube of semicircular cross-section as shown in figure. If the angle of contact is zero, then the ratio of the force of surface tension on flat side to curved side of the tube will be

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A thin liquid film formed between a U-shaped wire and a light slider supports a weight of 1.5×10-2N (See figure). The length of the slider is 30cm and its weight negligible. The surface tension of the liquid film is 

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A 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 is the surface tension of water, g is the gravitational acceleration) 

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Two drops of a liquid are merged to form a single drop. In this process, 

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Two spherical soap bubbles of radii r1 and r2 in vacuum coalesce under isothermal conditions. The resulting bubble has the radius R such that

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Potential energy of a molecule on the surface of a liquid as compared to another molecule inside of the liquid is
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The work done in breaking a big drop of radius R in n droplets of equal radii is (T is surface tension )