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Giancoli's Physics: Principles with Applications, 7th Edition

10-2: Density and Specific Gravity
10-3 to 10-6: Pressure; Pascal's Principle
10-7: Buoyancy and Archimedes' Principle
10-8 to 10-10: Fluid Flow, Bernoulli's Equation
10-11: Viscosity
10-12: Flow in Tubes; Poiseuille's Equation
10-13: Surface Tension and Capillarity
10-14: Pumps; the Heart

Question by Giancoli, Douglas C., Physics: Principles with Applications, 7th Ed., ©2014, Reprinted by permission of Pearson Education Inc., New York.
Problem 67
Q

If the force FF needed to move the wire in Fig. 10–34 is 3.4×103 N3.4 \times 10^{-3} \textrm{ N}, calculate the surface tension γ\gamma of the enclosed fluid. Assume l=0.070 ml = 0.070 \textrm{ m}.

U-shaped wire apparatus holding a film of liquid to measure surface tension (gamma = F/2l).
Figure 10-34 U-shaped wire apparatus holding a film of liquid to measure surface tension (γ=F/2l\gamma = F/2l).
A
0.024 N/m0.024 \textrm{ N/m}
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This is Giancoli Answers with Mr. Dychko. With this apparatus surface tension is force divided by 2l and this 2 is here because there's both a top and a bottom surface in that apparatus in figure [10-34]. And the force is 3.4 times 10 to the minus 3 newtons and divide that by 2 times 0.070 meters and that's 0.024 newtons per meter is the surface tension.

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