Properties of Bulk Matter

Dimensional Formula of Coefficient of Viscosity

Have you ever wondered why honey is thicker than water? Or why do different liquids have different consistency?  For example, just pour some water and honey into different tumblers simultaneously. Did you notice any difference in the time taken by each liquid to reach the respective tumblers? Did honey take more time to reach the […]

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Density and volume

Density A material’s density is defined as the density of that material in a given area. The material’s density relates to its mass per unit volume. It’s a measurement of how closely matter particles are packed together in general. The density principle was proposed by Archimedes. The density of various materials varies. Formula of Density

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Density and Specific Gravity

Specific gravity is calculated by dividing the density of a substance by the density of a standard or reference substance. Water is commonly used as a standard of comparison. Density, on the other hand, is measured in terms of weight units in relation to the size of the object. Density is calculated by dividing the

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Coefficient of Viscosity

Have you ever wondered why honey is thicker than water? Or why different liquids have different consistency?  For example, just pour some water and honey into different tumblers simultaneously. Did you notice any difference in the time taken by each liquid to reach the respective tumblers? Did honey take more time to reach the tumbler

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Change of State – Latent Heat

There are different types of changes of states happening in our day-to-day life which we notice in our surroundings. Different forms of state can be solid-state, liquid state, or gaseous state. Materials can exist in either of the forms and they can change between their states. When they change, properties of the substances will also

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Bubbles and Capillary Rise

Capillarity is the depression or rise of a liquid in a narrow passage. For example, water seeping in the gaps between the fibres of a towel or the holes in a porous material. Other names for this behaviour include capillary motion, capillarity or wicking.  Capillary action is not restricted to the vertical plane. It mainly

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Black-Body Radiation

To study the qualitative ideas of black body radiation, you must know that the ideal black body notion is of chief importance in the theory of thermal radiation and electromagnetic radiation, where energy is transferred together with wavelength bands.  Definition of a Black Body A black body can be defined as a body that allows

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Surface Tension and Surface Energy

All matter is composed of molecules, and each molecule has variable degrees of attraction to the molecules around it. Because of this intermolecular attraction, the molecules in your drink, or even the ice in your drink, stay together in a glass or as a puddle on the table top rather than drifting away into the

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Surface energy

Introduction  This article will discuss the concept of surface energy from NCERT chapter 10-Mechanical properties of Fluids. We will discuss the concept of surface energy, its relation to surface tension, the surface energy formula, along with some solved examples.  Defining surface energy  When the surface of the liquid molecules exhibits excess energy compared to the

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