Using a dropper, straw, or anything that can deliver water in drops, count how many drops you can

place on the surface of the new Php 1.00 coin until the mound of water collapses. Repeat the process
for a second trial. Take a picture of it and submit it along with the answers to the following:

a. Give all the things you have observed on the water on the surface of the coin. Explain your
observations using the concepts of surface tension, adhesion, and cohesion.

b. Is there any change in the appearance of the image on the coin? Explain using Physics concepts.

c. Did you count the same number of drops before the mound of water collapsed in both trials? Give
two reasons why the same or why different?

a.) Due to cohesion property, water molecule attract each other and tends to stick together. The
cohesion property results in surface tension. Water molecule attract each other and form a
dome shape coin. Surface tension prevents the water molecule from falling out and spilling. We
can keep adding water drop until the surface tension is not enough to counter the gravitational
pull on the water.
b.) Appearance of coin changes due to presence of water molecule on it because light coming from
coin get refracted from water surface before reaching to our eye.
c.) Since we have not changed any parameter like temperature that affect the surface tension of
water. Hence count of number of drops should be same before the amount of water collapsed
in both trials. Some water is used for second trial, molecule attract at same angle in both trial.
Hence count of number of drops should be same in both trials