TOPICS( ch. 1 )Pressure ( ch. 14 )Variation of Pressure with Depth Pressure MeasurementsBuElastic Properties of Solids ( ch. 12 ) Density oyant Forces-Archimedes PrincipleEquation of Continuity for FluidsBernoulli's EquationTorricelli’s LawSurface Tension Viscosity

SURFACE TENSION

The net effect of the pull on all the surface molecules is to make the surface of the liquid contract and, consequently, to make the surface area of the liquid as small as possible.

Drops of water take on a spherical shape because a sphere has the smallest surface area for a given volume.

The drop takes spherical shape because of a property of liquid surfaces called surface tension.

The surface tension in a film of liquid is defined as the magnitude of the surface tension force F divided by the length L along which the force acts:

SURFACE TENSION