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The maximum force in addition to the weight required to pull a wire frame 5.0cm long from a water surface at a temperature of 20°C is 720 dyne. The surface tension of water is

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A disc of paper of radius R is floating on the surface of water of surface tension T. If r=20 cm and T=0.070N m-1, then the force of surface tension on the disc is

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Water rises in a capillary tube to a certain height such that the upward force due to surface tension is balanced by a force of 75×10-4N due to the weight of the liquid. If the surface tension of water is 6×10-2Nm-1, then the inner circumference of the capillary must be

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A wire ring of diameter 14cm is gently lowered to a liquid surface and then pulled up. When the film just breaks, the force required is 0.0616N. The surface tension of the liquid is

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A ring of radius 0.75cm is floating on the surface of water. If surface tension of water is 0.07N m-1, then the force required to lift the ring from the surface of water will be

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A glass tube of internal diameter 3.5cm and thickness 0.5cm is held vertically with its lower end immersed in water. The downward pull on the tube due to surface tension (S.T. of water is 0.074N m-1) is

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Two glass Plates are separated by water. If surface tension of water is 75 dyne per cm And the area of each plate wetted by water is 8cm2 And the distance between the plates is 0.12mm, then the force applied to separate the two plates is

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A clean glass plate of length 9.8cm, breadth 4cm and thickness 0.2cm is suspended vertically with its long side horizontal and with half the side immersed. Pull due to surface tension will be (S.T=0.07N m-1 )

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Two drops of equal radius r coalesce to form a single drop under isothermal conditions. The radius of such a drop would be