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Home Assignment Topic: Elasticity, Surface Tension, Properties of liquids

Straight Objective Type

1. Young’s modulus of a perfectly rigid body is
(a) Unity (b) Infinity
(b) Zero (d) None of these 9. If the surface tension of a water drop of radius R is
2. Which of the following statement is incorrect? T, then the surface tension of droplet of radius 2R
(a) Hooke’s law is applicable within the elastic limit would be
(b) Bulk modulus of a gas is dimensionless (a) 4T (b) 2T
(c) Strain is a dimensionless quantity (c) T/2 (d) None of these
(d) Dimensions of stress & Young’s modulus are 10. The ratio of surface areas of two liquid drops is
same 1:4. The ratio of the excess pressure inside the
3. The stress-strain curve for four materials is shown liquid drops will be
D (a) 1:3 (b) 1:1
(c) 2:1 (d) 4:1
Stress

C
B
Answers
A
1- b, 2-b, 3-d, 4-d, 5-d, 6-b, 7-b, 8-c, 9-d, 10-c
Strain
Subjective Type
Which material is most elastic? 1. Obtain an expression for the elastic potential
(a) B (b) D energy of a stretched wire.
(c) A (d) C 2. Define the following terms – Modulus of rigidity,
4. Young’s modulus of a steel wire of radius 1mm is Surface energy, Angle of contact
Y. Young’s modulus of the steel wire of radius 3. Obtain an expression for the excess of pressure
2mm is inside a soap bubble.
(a) 2Y (b) Y/4 4. Discuss the action of detergents with respect to
(c) 4Y (d) Y surface tension.
10 2 5. State the properties of crystalline solids.
5. The Bulk modulus of oil is 5 x 10 N /m . If a
8 2
pressure of 2 x 10 N /m is applied on this oil,
the volume changes by
(a) 4% (b) 0.1%
(c) 1% (d) 0.4%
6. The lateral strain in a wire is 0.2 and the value of
Poisson’s ratio is 0.5, then the value of longitudinal
strain is
(a) 2.5 (b) 0.4
(c) 0.3 (d) 0.1
7. The volume of ocean water changes by 0.1% at a
depth of 2km below the surface of the ocean. The
compressibility of ocean is given by [
2 3 3
g=10 m/s , ρ=10 kg /m ]
−8 2 −11 2
(a) 5 x 10 m /N (b) 5 x 10 m /N
−8 2
(c) 10 m /N (d)
−8 2
10 x 10 m /N
8. The work done in blowing a soap bubble is radius
1cm is W, how much work is required to increase
the radius of the soap bubble to 2cm?
(a) 2W (b) 4W
(c) 3W (d) W