CH- 12 :

SURFACE TENSION
Lect-02
 Today’s Goal

Excess Pressure in a Liquid Drop

Contact Angle
Capillarity
Excess Pressure in a Liquid Drop
Q) 0.04 cm liquid column balances the excess pressure inside
a soap bubble of radius 6 mm. Evaluate density of the liquid.
Surface tension of soap solution =0.03N/m

a) 4x103 kg/m3
b) 5x103 kg/m3
c) 8x103 kg/m3
d) 12x103 kg/m3
Q) A soap bubble , having radius of 1mm,is blown from a
detergent solution having a surface tension of 2.5 x 10-2 N/m.
The pressure inside the bubble equals at a point Zo below the
free surface of water in a container. Taking g=10 m/s2,density
of water=103 kg/m2,the value of Zo is [NEET 2019]

a) 0.5 cm
b) 100 cm
c) 10 cm
d) 1 cm
Contact Angle
The angle between tangent to the liquid surface at the
point of contact and tangent to solid surface, measured
inside the liquid is termed as angle of contact.
Cohesive Force: Force of attraction between molecules of
same kind.
Adhesive Force: Force of attraction between molecules of
different kind.
➢ For pure water and perfectly clean
glass,the angle of contact is 0o

➢ For ordinary water and glass,it lies

between 8o and 18o.

➢ For pure water and pure silver,the

angle of contact is 90o
Capillarity
If a capillary tube of glass is dipped in liquid like water, the
liquid rises in the tube, but when the capillary tube is dipped
in a liquid like mercury, the level of liquid falls in the tube.
This phenomenon of rise or fall of a liquid in the capillary is
called capillarity
Height of Capillary Rise
Q) If the surface tension of water is 0.06 N/m then the
capillary rise in a tube of diameter 1mm is (θ=0o)

a) 3.86 cm
b) 3.12 cm
c) 2.4 cm
d) 1.22 cm
Q) Water rises to a height of 10 cm in a capillary tube and
mercury falls to a depth of 3.5 cm in the same capillary tube.
If the density of mercury is 13.6 gm/cc and its angle of
contact is 135o and density of water is 1 gm/cc and its angle
of contact is 0o, then the ratio of surface tensions of the two
liquids is (cos 135o=0.7) [MP PMT 1988;EAMCET 2003]
a) 1:14
b) 5:34
c) 1:5
d) 5:27
a) 2.0 cm
b) 4.0 cm
c) 4/ 𝟑 cm
d) 2 𝟐 cm
a) 2 cm
b) 4 cm
c) 8 cm
d) 16 cm
Q) A capillary tube of radius R is immersed in water and
water rises in it to a height H.Mass of water in the capillary
tube is M.If the radius of the tube is doubled,mass of water
that will rise in the capillary tube will now be
[RPMT 1997;RPET 1999;CPMT 2002]

a) M
b) 2M
c) M/2
d) 4M
Radius of Tube(r) and Radius of Meniscus(R)
Capillary Tube of Insufficient height