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A bolt of lightning heats the surrounding air to ~30,000 K — five times hotter than the Sun's surface.
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A bolt of lightning heats the surrounding air to ~30,000 K — five times hotter than the Sun's surface.
A capillary tube of radius is immersed in water and water rises in it to a height The mass of the water in the capillary is g. Another capillary tube of radius is immersed in water. The mass of water that will rise in this tube is:
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To solve this problem, we need to understand the concept of capillary action.When a capillary tube is immersed in water, the water rises to a height due to surface tension.The mass of the water column in the capillary tube is given by:where is the density of water and is the volume of the water column.The volume of the water column in a capillary tube of radius and height is:Thus, the mass of the water in the first capillary tube is:Given that g, we have:(Equation 1)Now, consider the second capillary tube with radius The height of the water column in this tube will be because the height of rise is inversely proportional to the radius.The volume of the water column in the second tube is:The mass of the water in the second capillary tube is:Substituting Equation 1 into this expression, we get: gTherefore, the mass of water that will rise in the second tube is g.This corresponds to Option 2.
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