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Questions Related to surface tension

Property of fluid by which its own molecules are attracted is called 

  1. adhesion

  2. cohesion

  3. viscosity

  4. compressibility


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Cohesion is the intermolecular attractive force acting between two adjacent portions of a substance within itself, particularly of a fluid. It is this force that holds a piece of matter together. 

Attractive forces of cell walls for water molecules is termed as

  1. Adhesion

  2. Cohesion

  3. Osmosis

  4. Plasmolysis


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Adhesion is the tendency of dissimilar particles or surfaces to cling to one another.

Cohesion refers to the tendency of similar or identical particles/surfaces to cling to one another.
Example of cohesion - attractive force between water molecules and adhesion - attractive force between water and xylem channels.

A piece of ice. With a stone frozen inside it, is floating in water contained in a beak. When the ice metls,the level of water in the beaker.

  1. Rises

  2. Falls

  3. Remains uncharged

  4. Fall at first and then rises to the same height as before.


Correct Option: C

The surface tension and vapour pressure of water at $20^oC$ is 7.28$ \times10^{ -2 }$ N/m and $2.33 \times { 10 }^{ 3 }$ pa, respectively. What is the radius of the smallest spherical water droplet which can from without evaporating at $20^oC$ ?

  1. $5\times { 10 }^{ -4 }m$

  2. $6.25\times{10}^{-5}m$

  3. $9\times{10}^{-2}m$

  4. $3\times{10}^{-5}m$


Correct Option: A

Soldering of two metals is possible because of the property of:

  1. viscosity

  2. surface tension

  3. osmosis

  4. cohesion


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

When the two metals are soldered a filler material is used which bonds using cohesion.

 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$=0.03\ {Nm}^{-1}$):

  1. $0.2\pi\ mJ$

  2. $2\pi\ mJ$

  3. $0.4\pi\ mJ$

  4. $4\pi\ mJ$


Correct Option: C

If the resultant adhensive force between liquid and solid is smaller than the resultant cohesive then will_______

  1. partially wets the solid

  2. does not wets the solid

  3. completely wets the solid

  4. does not interact with solid


Correct Option: C

The dimension of sphere of influence of an molecules is

  1. $1 A^o$

  2. $10 A^o$

  3. $100 A^o$

  4. $0.1 A^o$


Correct Option: A
Explanation:


The Molecular range is the radius around a molecule in a substance to which the molecule can exert attraction force on another molecule$.$  This is distance$,$
Sphere of influence is the spherical space/volume around a molecule in a substance$,$ inside which the molecule at center can exert attractive force on another molecule$.$
The molecular range is very small like $1 nanometer.$
Surface tension is the surface energy $-$ additional energy required to increase surface by a unit area$.$  This is also the tension force exerted $($along the line$)$ on the boundary of a surface per unit length$.$
Hence,
option $(A)$ is correct answer.

Ball pen and fountain pen depend respectively upon the principle of

  1. Surface tension and viscosity

  2. Gravitation and surface tension

  3. Surface tension and gravity

  4. Surface tension and surface tension


Correct Option: A

If $2$ bubble of radius $r _1$ & $r _2$ are combined then find radius of common surface.

  1. $\dfrac{r _1r _2}{r _1+r _2}$

  2. $\dfrac{r _1r _2}{r _1-r _2}$

  3. $\sqrt{r _1r _2}$

  4. $\dfrac{r _1+r _2}{2}$


Correct Option: B