EXCESS PRESSURE INSIDE AN LIQUID DROP
ASSIGNMENT – 13
1. An oil bath (density of oil = 0.85 × 103 kg/m 3) has a spherical cavity of diameter 26 × 10–6 m
at a depth of 0.2 m. If the surface tension of oil is 26 × 10–3 N/m and the pressure of air over
the surface of oil is 76 cm of mercury, the pressure inside the cavity will be (Density of
mercury = 13.6 gm/cm 3)
(A) 1.03 × 105 N/m 2 (B) 1.07 × 105 N/m 2 (C) 1.17 × 105 N/m 2 (D) 3.07 × 105 N/m 2
2. Assuming the surface tension of rain water to be 72 dyne/cm, find the difference of pressure
inside and outside a rain drop of diameter 0.02 cm. What would this pressure difference amount
to, if the drop were to be decreased by evaporation to a diameter of 0.0002 cm?
3. What is the excess pressure inside a bubble of soap solution of radius 5.0 mm , given that
the surface tension of soap solution is 2.5 10 2 N/m . If an air bubble of the same dimension
were formed at a depth of 40.0 cm inside a container containing the soap solution (of relative
density 1.2) what would be pressure inside the bubble. [1 atm = 1.01 105 N/m 2 ]
4. Find the excess pressure inside a drop of mercury of radius 2 mm, a soap bubble of radius 4 mm
and an air bubble of radius 4 mm formed inside a tank of water. Surface tension of mercury is
0.465 N/m and soap solution and water are, 0.03 N/m and 0.076 N/m respectively.
5. A spherical drop of water has 1mm radius. If the surface tension of the water is 50 × 10 –3 N/m,
then find the difference of pressure between inside and outside the spherical drop is :
6. A water drop is divided into 8 equal droplets. The pressure difference between the inner and
outer side of the big drop will be :
(A) same as for smaller droplet (B) 1/2 of that for smaller droplet
(C) 1/4 of that for smaller droplet (D) twice that for smaller droplet
7. A vessel whose bottom has round holes with a diameter of d = 0.1 mm is filled with water.
The maximum height of the water level h at which the water does not flow out, will be : (The
water does not wet the bottom of the vessel). [S.T of water = 70 dyn/cm]
(A) h = 24.0 cm (B) h = 25.0 cm (C) h = 26.0 cm (D) h = 28.0 cm
8. An air bubble is lying just below the surface of water. The surface tension of water is
70 × 10–3 Nm–1 and atmospheric pressure is 1.013 × 105 Nm–2. If the radius of bubble is 1 mm,
then the pressure inside the bubble will be :–
(A) 1.0270 × 105 Pa (B) 1.0160 × 105 Pa (C) 1.0144 × 105 Pa (D) 1.0131 × 105 Pa
ANSWER KEY
1. (B) 2. 1.44 × 104 dyn/cm2 and 1.44 × 107 dyn/cm2
3. 20 N/m 2 , 1.05714 105 N/m 2 4. (a) 465 N/m2 (b) 30 N/m2 (c) 38 N/m2
5. 100N/m2 6. (B) 7. (D)
8. (C)
