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vijayram
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Homework Statement
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Water rises in a capillary tube to certain height such that the upward surface due to surface tension is balanced by 7.5 X 10-4N
Force due to weight of the liquid. If the surface tension of water is 6 X 10-2Nm-1,the inner circumference of the capillary must be
Homework Equations
pexcess=2T/rcosθ
The Attempt at a Solution
I thought that the force of the excess pressure which causes the movement of liquid must be equal to the weight of the liquid.I know excess pressure is 2T/r (θ=0 for water),but how to find the force of this pressure?Is my approach right?
Can we just like that multiply 2T/r with πr2because it is not plain liquid but a meniscus?