Fluid Mechanics

Assignment 4
Surface Tension & Capillary

Instruction: Answers with decimals must be corrected to two decimal places.

1. By how much does the pressure inside a 2-mm-diameter air bubble in 15℃ water exceed the pressure in
𝑁
the surrounding water? Surface tension of water at 15℃ is 𝜎 = 0.0735 𝑚.

2. An atomizer forms water droplets 45𝜇𝑚 in diameter. Find the excess pressure within these droplets for
water at 30℃ (refer to Table 1 for the surface tension).

3. Find the angle the surface tension film leaves the glass for a vertical tube immersed in water if the diameter
𝑁
is 0.25 in and the capillary rise is 0.08 in. Use 𝜎 = 0.005 𝑚 𝑙𝑏/𝑓𝑡.

4. Distilled water at 10℃ stands in a glass tube of 9.0-mm-diameter at a height of 24.0 mm. What is the true
static height?

5. What capillary depression of mercury (𝜃 = 140°) may be expected in a 0.08-in-diameter tube at 68℉?