Angle of Contact

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Angle of Contact: Overview

This topic covers concepts, such as, Angle of Contact,Contact Angle of Various Solid-Liquid Pairs,Characteristics of Angle of Contact etc.

Important Questions on Angle of Contact

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A large tank is filled with two liquids of specific gravities 2 σ and σ . Two holes are made on the wall of the tank as shown. Find the ratio of the distances from O of the points on the ground where the jets from holes A and B strike.

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The volume of an air bubble is doubled as it rises from the bottom of a lake to its surface. If the atmospheric pressure is H m of mercury & the density of mercury is n times that of lake water. Find the depth of the lake

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Pressure inside two soap bubbles are 1.01 and 1.02 atmospheres. Ratio between their volumes is

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The excess pressure inside an air bubble of radius r just below the surface of water is P 1 . The pressure inside a drop of the same radius just outside the surface is P 2 . If T is surface tension then

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If the radius of a soap bubble is four times that of another,then the ratio of their excess pressures will be

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What happens when angle of contact is 90?

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What is angle of contact in capillary tube?

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What is the angle of contact of a liquid?

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What is angle of contact Class 12?

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What are characteristics of angle of contact?

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What is the effect of temperature on angle of contact?

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What is the physical significance of angle of contact?

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What is meant by angle of contact state its four characteristics?

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What are the characteristics of angle?

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Water forms droplets on lotus leaf as while spreads over a clean plastic. Draw the force diagram at the interface.

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Two soap bubbles A and B are kept in a closed chamber and air pressure maintained at 8 N/m2. The radius  of bubbles A and B are 2 cm and 4 cm respectively.  The surface tension of the soap-water used to make bubbles is 0.04 N/m. Then  ratio nB/nAis :-

 Here nA and nB are the number of moles of air in bubbles A and B respectively (Neglect the effect of gravity)

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The grease deposited on a glass plate can be easily removed by cleaning the glass with hot water containing detergent powder, because the detergent powder :-

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If the excess pressure inside a soap bubble is balanced by oil column of height 2 mm, then the surface tension of soap solution will be (r=1 cm and density d=0.8 g cc-1) g=10 m s-2

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What should be the pressure inside a small air bubble of 0.1 mm radius situated just below the surface of water? Surface tension of water =72×10-3 N/m and atmospheric pressure =1.013×105Nm2 .

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A mosquito with 8 legs stands on water surface and each leg makes depression of radius a. If the surface tension and angle of contact are T and zero respectively then the weight of mosquito is -