All About Liquid

Liquid is less dense than solid and More dense than air.
-When a liquid is in equilibrium, the force/forces acting on its surface are perpendicular everywhere.
-In a liquid the pressure is same at the same horizontal level.
-The pressure at any point in the liquid depends on depth (h) below the surface, density of liquid and acceleration due to gravity
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Surface tension:
The surface tension work on two intermolecular forces
1. Cohesive force =The force of attraction between molecules of same substance. This force is higher in solid. e.g. two drops of water stick together when come in contact, difficult to separate two sticky plate of welded with water, difficult to break mercury drops.
2. Adhesive force=The force of attraction between molecules of different substances.eg. to write on blackboard with chalk, a piece of paper stick with other with gum, water wet the surface of glass etc.

The property of a liquid due to which its free surface tries to have minimum surface area and behaves as if it were under tension somewhat like a stretched elastic membrane is called surface tension. It depends only on the nature of liquid and is independent of the area of surface. It is a scalar unit as it has a unique direction which is not to be specified.
Surface tension is an important factor in the phenomenon of capillary action.
The surface tension decrease with the rise of temperature and become zero at boiling point, that is why hot is tastier than cold and machinery part get jammed in winter. The impurities in liquid can affect the surface tension, sodium chloride increase the surface tension and phenol decrease the surface tension.


-Surface tension allows insects to float and stride on a water surface.
-a small liquid drop has its shape spherical due to surface tension.
-Hair of shaving brush/painting brush when dipped in water spread out, but as soon as it is taken out, its hair stick together.
-If a small piece of camphor is floated on the surface of the water it does not remain steady but dances about on the surface. This is because; irregular shaped camphor dissolves unequally and decreases the surface tension of the water.
-oil drop spread on cold water because surface tension of oil is less than that of cold water, but may remain as a drop in hot water.
-In soldering, flux is added to reduce the surface tension of molten tin.
-In order to spread more, the surface tension of lubricants and paints is kept low.
-insect can float on water because of surface tension, similarly a greased needle can float.
-Stormy waves at sea are calmed by pouring oil on seawater because oil has low surface tension
-When a wire loop is dipped into a soap solution and taken out, a soap film is formed on the loop due to surface tension
-It is better to wash clothes in hot soap solution. Hot solution has lower surface tension. Hence, the solution spreads over a larger area or clothes and cleaning action increases.
-The oil and grease spots on clothes cannot be removed by pure water. On the other hand, when detergents (like soap) are added in water, the surface tension of water decreases. As a result of this, wetting power of soap solution increases. Also the force of adhesion between soap solution and oil or grease on the clothes increases. Thus, oil, grease and dirt particles get mixed with soap solution easily. Hence clothes are washed easily
-The antiseptics have very low value of surface tension. The low value of surface tension prevents the formation of drops that may otherwise block the entrance to skin or a wound (injury). Due to low surface tension, the antiseptics spread properly over wound.
-The working of ball and fountain pen depend on the surface tension and gravitation.
Capillarity

The phenomenon of natural rise or fall of liquid column in a narrow tube is called capillarity and the tube is known as the capillary tube.hen a capillary tube is dipped in a liquid, the liquid surface becomes curved This curved surface is due to the resultant of two forces i.e. the force of cohesion and the force of adhesion. The curved surface of the liquid is called meniscus of the liquid. This meniscus or curved either convex or concave, depending on the liquid or the surface.

If the force of adhesive is more than the cohesive force then the liquid rise and concave meniscus is formed and the other hand if cohesive force is more than adhesive then liquid fall and convex meniscus is formed. therefore if the liquid wet the surface of the glass tube mean the adhesive force between liquid and glass is more, so it rise in the capillary tube e.g. water. And on the other hand if the liquid does not wet the surface of the capillary tube mean the adhesive force between the liquid and glass tube is less, so the liquid fall and convex meniscus formed e.g. Mercury.

-The tip of the nib of a pen is split in order to provide a capillary which helps the ink to rise to the end of the nib and enables it to write continuously.
-when a chalk piece is dipped in water the bubbles comes out. The pores in the chalk act as narrow capillary. Water enters to the pores due t0 capillary action and air comes out.
-A blotting paper has fine pores act as a capillary. Hence ink rises and leaving the paper dry.
-Threads of towel work as a narrow capillary that soak the water.
-In winter season the wooden door swells due to the capillary action of moisture soak by pores of wood.
-molten wax of candle rise up through the thread due to the capillary action.
-clay soil have capillary but sand does not have, hence underground water rises up in clay but sand remain dry.
-Ploughing of fields is essential for preserving moisture in the soil. Ploughing breaks the fine capillaries in the soil. It prevents the rise of water and reduces evaporation of water con tent in the soil.
-The transport of water and minerals from the soil to plants is favoured by the capillary action in the conduction tissues called Xylems in the plants.
Viscosity
The friction of fluid that arise due to the intermolecular force. The different layers of fluid flow with different velocity, these layers exert friction force on each other, It gives rises to a backward dragging force between the fluid layers.water have less viscocity than honey.in simple language, more the vicosity less speed to flow. The general understanding of viscosity is that it refers to the thickness or thinness of a fluid. rheometer is instrument to measure the viscosity of fluid. When temperature increased the viscosity of fluid decreased but the air increase with the increase of temperature.

-In railway terminal the liquid with high viscosity is used as buffer.
-chemist used viscosity to determine the mass and shape of large organic molecules like protein and cellulose.
 



BERNOULLI’S principle

Suppose fluid flowing from a tube, the tube become narrow it will cause to accelerate the fluid. It mean the narrower the tube higher the velocity Bernoulli’s theorem state that: Fluid can have potential energy (depend on height), kinetic energy (speed) and pressure energy. The total energy of fluid remains same during its flow. Bernoulli’s theorem doesn’t take the viscosity into account

-Two boats moving parallel to each other and nearby are pulled towards each other. velocity of water between the two rows increases which results in increase in K.E. of water in between. So according to Bernoulli’s theorem when velocity increases the pressure decrees. The pressure inside the boat become less than the pressure outside the boat, due to this pressure difference the boats pull together.

-The roofs of hut or tin roofs are usually blown off without causing any harm to the huts during cyclones or storms. The wind blows speedily above the roof during the storm whereas air inside the hut remains at rest. It gives higher kinetic energy and small pressure energy above the roof whereas below the roof K.E. is small and pressure energy is high. Due to high pressure and hence, higher pressure below the roof, the roof experiences an upward force and is blown off with stormy wind.
- The wings of airplane also work on the principle of Bernoulli’s principle. The wings designed in this way they experience an upward force. the upper surface of wing is more curved than the lower. The velocity of air above the wing more than that of lower mean the kinetic energy of air become more that lower surface of wing and the pressure below the wing become greater than that of upper, this gives an upward push to the wing of airplane.
-when a spinning ball is thrown, it deviates from its straight path and path become curve. This is happened due to the Bernoulli’s theorem and this effect is known as Magnus effect. When a spinning ball is thrown, air moves backward above and below the ball. The speed of air below the ball becomes more because the spinning ball.hence the kinetic energy of lower air become more and pressure decrease than the other side. This pressure difference the ball goes to curved path.



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