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Q1MHT CET 2026 · 19 APR · SHIFT 2Easy

Splitting & Merging of Drops · Splitting a drop

The energy needed for breaking a liquid drop of radius 'R' into 'n' droplets each of radius 'r' is [ TT = surface tension of the liquid]

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Q2MHT CET 2026 · 11 APR · SHIFT 2Easy

Splitting & Merging of Drops · Splitting a drop

A liquid drop having surface energy E is sprayed into 512512 droplets of the same size. Then the final surface energy is

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Q3MHT CET 2026 · 20 MAY · SHIFT 1Easy

Splitting & Merging of Drops · Merging drops

729729 water droplets of equal radii combine to form a big drop. The ratio of final surface energy to the total initial surface energy is

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Q4MHT CET 2026 · 16 APR · SHIFT 2Easy

Splitting & Merging of Drops · Merging drops

One thousand small water drops of equal radii combine to form a big drop. The ratio of final surface energy to the total initial surface energy is

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Q5JEE Main 2026 · 5 APR · SHIFT 2Easy

Splitting & Merging of Drops · Merging drops

Eight mercury drops, each of radius rr, coalesce to form a bigger drop. The surface energy released in this process is ______ - ( SS is the surface tension of mercury).

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Q6MHT CET 2026 · 13 APR · SHIFT 2Medium

Splitting & Merging of Drops · Splitting a drop

A spherical drop of liquid splits into 10001000 identical spherical drops. If uiu_i is the surface energy of the original drop and ufu_f is the total surface energy of the resulting drops, the (ignoring evaporation). uf/ui=(10/x)u_f/u_i = (10/x). Then value of xx is

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Q7MHT CET 2026 · 13 APR · SHIFT 1Medium

Splitting & Merging of Drops · Splitting a drop

The work done in splitting a water drop of radius 'R' into 64 droplets is (T is the surface tension of water)

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Q8JEE Main 2026 · 2 APR · SHIFT 1Medium

Splitting & Merging of Drops · Splitting a drop

A liquid drop of diameter 2 mm breaks into 512 droplets. The change in surface energy is α×10−6\alpha \times 10^{-6} J. The value of α\alpha is _______. (Take surface tension of liquid = 0.08 N/m)

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Q9MHT CET 2026 · 15 MAY · SHIFT 2Medium

Splitting & Merging of Drops · Merging drops

Two water drops each of radius rr coalesce to form a big drop. If TT is the surface tension, the surface energy released in this process is 4πr2Tx4\pi r^2 T x. The value of xx is

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Q10MHT CET 2026 · 13 MAY · SHIFT 1Medium

Splitting & Merging of Drops · Merging drops

When a big drop of water is formed from n small drops of water, the energy loss is 3E, where E is the energy of the big drop. If R is the radius of big drop and r is the radius of the smaller drop then number of smaller drops n is

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Q11MHT CET 2026 · 13 APR · SHIFT 2Medium

Splitting & Merging of Drops · Merging drops

Determine the ratio of surface energy of 11 large drop to 11 small drop, if 10001000 small drops combined to form 11 large drop.

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Q12MHT CET 2026 · 13 APR · SHIFT 1Medium

Splitting & Merging of Drops · Merging drops

Two small drops of liquid of same radius coalesce to form a big drop. The ratio of the total surface energies after and before the change is

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Q13MHT CET 2025 · 20 APR · SHIFT 2Easy

Splitting & Merging of Drops · Splitting a drop

A liquid drop having surface energy EE is sprayed into 512 droplets of same size. The final surface energy is

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Q14MHT CET 2025 · 20 APR · SHIFT 1Easy

Splitting & Merging of Drops · Splitting a drop

The surface energy of a liquid drop is ' VV '. It is sprayed into 1000 equal droplets. The surface energy of all the droplets is

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Q15MHT CET 2025 · 20 APR · SHIFT 1Easy

Splitting & Merging of Drops · Splitting a drop

A liquid drop having surface energy EE is spread into 729 droplets of same size. The final surface energy of the droplets is

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Q16MHT CET 2025 · 5 MAY · SHIFT 2Medium

Splitting & Merging of Drops · Splitting a drop

A spherical liquid drop splits in to 729 identical spherical drops. If EE is the surface energy of the original drop and UU is the total surface energy of resulting drops, then EU=1x\frac{E}{U} = \frac{1}{x}. The value of xx is

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Q17MHT CET 2025 · 26 APR · SHIFT 2Medium

Splitting & Merging of Drops · Splitting a drop

The work done in splitting a water drop of radius R into 64 droplets is ( T=T = surface tension of water)

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Q18MHT CET 2025 · 23 APR · SHIFT 2Medium

Splitting & Merging of Drops · Splitting a drop

The energy needed for breaking a liquid drop of radius ' RR ' into 216 droplets, each of radius ' rr ' is ' xx ' times TR2TR^2. The value of ' xx ' is [ T=T = surface tension of the liquid].

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Q19MHT CET 2025 · 22 APR · SHIFT 2Medium

Splitting & Merging of Drops · Splitting a drop

The energy needed for breaking a liquid drop of radius ' RR ' into ' nn ' droplets each of radius ' rr ' is [T=[T = surface tension of the liquid]

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Q20JEE Main 2025 · 24 JAN · SHIFT 1Medium

Splitting & Merging of Drops · Splitting a drop

The amount of work done to break a big water drop of radius ' RR ' into 27 small drops of equal radius is 10 J. The work done required to break the same big drop into 64 small drops of equal radius will be

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Q21MHT CET 2025 · 19 APR · SHIFT 1Medium

Splitting & Merging of Drops · Merging drops

When a big drop of water is formed from ' nn ' small drops of water, the energy loss is ' 3 E ' where ' EE ' is the energy of the bigger drop. The radius of the bigger drop is ' R ' and that of smaller drop is ' rr ' then the value of ' nn ' is

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Q22JEE Main 2025 · 2 APR · SHIFT 2Medium

Splitting & Merging of Drops · Merging drops

Two water drops each of radius ' rr ' coalesce to form a bigger drop. If ' TT ' is the surface tension, the surface energy released in this process is:

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Q23MHT CET 2024 · 16 MAY · SHIFT 2Easy

Splitting & Merging of Drops · Splitting a drop

A liquid drop having surface energy ' EE ' is spread into 512 droplets of same size. The final surface energy of the droplets is

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Answer: (c)

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Q24JEE Main 2024 · 1 FEB · SHIFT 2Easy

Splitting & Merging of Drops · Merging drops

A big drop is formed by coalescing 1000 small droplets of water. The surface energy will become:

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Q25JEE Main 2024 · 6 APR · SHIFT 1Easy

Splitting & Merging of Drops · Merging drops

A big drop is formed by coalescing 1000 small droplets of water. The ratio of surface energy of 1000 droplets to that of energy of big drop is 10x\frac{10}{x}. The value of xx is ________.

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Answer: 1

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Q26JEE Main 2024 · 30 JAN · SHIFT 2Easy

Splitting & Merging of Drops · Merging drops

A big drop is formed by coalescing 1000 small identical drops of water. If E1E_1 be the total surface energy of 1000 small drops of water and E2E_2 be the surface energy of single big drop of water, then E1:E2E_1 : E_2 is x:1x : 1 where x=x = ________.

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Answer: 10

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Q27MHT CET 2024 · 15 MAY · SHIFT 1Medium

Splitting & Merging of Drops · Splitting a drop

When a mercury drop of radius ' RR ' splits up into 1000 droplets of radius ' rr ', the change in surface energy is ( T=T = surface tension of mercury)

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Q28MHT CET 2024 · 9 MAY · SHIFT 2Medium

Splitting & Merging of Drops · Splitting a drop

The work done in splitting a water drop of radius R into 64 droplets is ( T=T = Surface tension of water)

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Q29JEE Main 2024 · 29 JAN · SHIFT 2Medium

Splitting & Merging of Drops · Splitting a drop

A small liquid drop of radius RR is divided into 27 identical liquid drops. If the surface tension is TT, then the work done in the process will be:

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Answer: (b)

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Q30MHT CET 2024 · 11 MAY · SHIFT 1Medium

Splitting & Merging of Drops · Merging drops

A big water drop is formed by the combination of ' nn ' small water droplets of equal radii. The ratio of the surface energy of ' nn ' droplets to the surface energy of the big drop is

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Answer: (b)

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Q31MHT CET 2024 · 9 MAY · SHIFT 2Medium

Splitting & Merging of Drops · Merging drops

Let ' nn ' is the number of liquid drops, each with surface energy ' EE '. These drops join to form single drop. In this process

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Answer: (c)

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Q32MHT CET 2023 · 14 MAY · SHIFT 2Easy

Splitting & Merging of Drops · Merging drops

1000 small water drops of equal size combine to form a big drop. The ratio of final surface energy to the total initial surface energy is

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Answer: (b)

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Q33MHT CET 2023 · 12 MAY · SHIFT 2Easy

Splitting & Merging of Drops · Merging drops

Eight small drops of mercury each of radius 'rr', coalesce to form a large single drop. The ratio of total surface energy before and after the change is

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Answer: (a)

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Q34MHT CET 2023 · 12 MAY · SHIFT 1Medium

Splitting & Merging of Drops · Splitting a drop

A spherical drop of liquid splits into 1000 identical spherical drops. If 'E1E_1' is the surface energy of the original drop and 'E2E_2' is the total surface energy of the resulting drops, then E1E2=x10\frac{E_1}{E_2} = \frac{x}{10}. Then value of 'xx' is

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Answer: (d)

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Q35MHT CET 2023 · 11 MAY · SHIFT 2Medium

Splitting & Merging of Drops · Splitting a drop

A liquid drop of radius 'RR' is broken into 'nn' identical small droplets. The work done is [T = surface tension of the liquid]

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Answer: (b)

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Q36MHT CET 2023 · 11 MAY · SHIFT 1Medium

Splitting & Merging of Drops · Splitting a drop

A spherical liquid drop of radius RR is divided into 8 equal droplets. If surface tension is SS, then the work done in this process will be

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Q37JEE Main 2023 · 1 FEB · SHIFT 1Medium

Splitting & Merging of Drops · Splitting a drop

A mercury drop of radius 10−3 m10^{-3}\text{ m} is broken into 125 equal size droplets. Surface tension of mercury is 0.45 N m−10.45\text{ N m}^{-1}. The gain in surface energy is:

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Q38JEE Main 2023 · 25 JAN · SHIFT 2Medium

Splitting & Merging of Drops · Splitting a drop

A spherical drop of liquid splits into 1000 identical spherical drops. If ui{}_{i} is the surface energy of the original drop and uf{}_{f} is the total surface energy of the resulting drops, then (ignoring evaporation), ufui=(10x)\frac{u_f}{u_i} = \left(\frac{10}{x}\right). Then value of x is ____________:

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Answer: 1

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Q39MHT CET 2023 · 13 MAY · SHIFT 1Medium

Splitting & Merging of Drops · Merging drops

Twenty seven droplets of water each of radius 0.1 mm0.1\text{ mm} merge to form a single drop then the energy released is

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Q40JEE Main 2023 · 31 JAN · SHIFT 1Medium

Splitting & Merging of Drops · Merging drops

If 1000 droplets of water of surface tension 0.07 N/m0.07\text{ N/m}, having same radius 1 mm1\text{ mm} each, combine to form a single drop. In the process the released surface energy is :-

(Take π=227)\left(\text{Take } \pi = \frac{22}{7}\right)

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Answer: (a)

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Q41MHT CET 2023 · 13 MAY · SHIFT 1Difficult

Splitting & Merging of Drops · Merging drops

A large number of water droplets each of radius 'rr' combine to form a large drop of Radius 'RR'. If the surface tension of water is 'TT' & mechanical equivalent of heat is 'JJ' then the rise in temperature due to this is

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Q42MHT CET 2023 · 10 MAY · SHIFT 2Difficult

Splitting & Merging of Drops · Merging drops

'nn' number of liquid drops each of radius 'rr' coalesce to form a single drop of radius 'RR'. The energy released in the process is converted into the kinetic energy of the big drop so formed. The speed of the big drop is

[T=[T = surface tension of liquid, ρ=\rho = density of liquid.]

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Q43JEE Main 2022 · 26 JUL · SHIFT 1Medium

Splitting & Merging of Drops · Splitting a drop

A water drop of radius 1 cm1\text{ cm} is broken into 729 equal droplets. If surface tension of water is 75 dyne/ cm\text{cm}, then the gain in surface energy upto first decimal place will be:

(Given π=3.14\pi = 3.14)

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Q44JEE Main 2022 · 28 JUN · SHIFT 1Medium

Splitting & Merging of Drops · Splitting a drop

A water drop of diameter 2 cm is broken into 64 equal droplets. The surface tension of water is 0.075 N/m. In this process the gain in surface energy will be:

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Q45JEE Main 2022 · 30 JUL · SHIFT 2Medium

Splitting & Merging of Drops · Splitting a drop

A water drop of radius 1 cm1\text{ cm} is broken into eight equal droplets. Surface tension of water is 0.075 N m−10.075\text{ N m}^{-1}. The gain in surface energy is ___________ ×10−7 J\times 10^{-7}\text{ J}. (Take π=3.14\pi = 3.14)

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Answer: 942

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Q46MHT CET 2021 · 20 SEP · SHIFT 2Easy

Splitting & Merging of Drops · Splitting a drop

The surface energy of a liquid drop is 'U'. It splits up into 512 equal droplets. The surface energy becomes

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Q47JEE Main 2021 · 20 JUL · SHIFT 2Easy

Splitting & Merging of Drops · Merging drops

Two small drops of mercury each of radius R coalesce to form a single large drop. The ratio of total surface energy before and after the change is:

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Q48MHT CET 2021 · 21 SEP · SHIFT 1Medium

Splitting & Merging of Drops · Merging drops

Two small drops of mercury each of radius 'RR' coalesce to form a large single drop. The ratio of the total surface energies before and after the change is

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Q49JEE Main 2021 · 26 FEB · SHIFT 1Medium

Splitting & Merging of Drops · Merging drops

A large number of water drops, each of radius r, combine to have a drop of radius R. If the surface tension is T and mechanical equivalent of heat is J, the rise in heat energy per unit volume will be:

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Answer: (b)

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Q50MHT CET 2020 · 16 OCT · SHIFT 1Medium

Splitting & Merging of Drops · Merging drops

Two small drops of mercury each of radius rr coalesce to form a large single drop. The ratio of the total surface energies before and after the change is

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Q51MHT CET 2019 · 2 MAY · SHIFT 1Medium

Splitting & Merging of Drops · Merging drops

Two small drops of mercury each of radius ' RR ' coalesce to form a large single drop. The ratio of the total surface energies before and after the change is

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Q52NEET 2014 · AIPMTDifficult

Splitting & Merging of Drops · Merging drops

A certain number of spherical drops of a liquid of radius r coalesce to form a single drop of radius R and volume V. If T is the surface tension of the liquid, then

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Q53JEE Main 2014 · 19 APR · SHIFT 1Difficult

Splitting & Merging of Drops · Merging drops

A large number of liquid drops each of radius r coalesce to form a single drop of radius R. The energy released in the process is converted into kinetic energy of the big drop so formed. The speed of the big drop is (given surface tension of liquid T, density ρ\rho)

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Q54JEE Main 2013Medium

Splitting & Merging of Drops · Splitting a drop

Assume that a drop of liquid evaporates by decreases in its surface energy, so that its temperature remains unchanged. What should be the minimum radius of the drop for this to be possible? The surface tension is T,T, density of liquid is ρ\rho and LL is its latent heat of vaporization.

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