Angle of Contact & Capillarity
Water rises upto a height in a capillary tube. It will rise to a height which is much more than in a very long capillary tube if the apparatus is kept.
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Answer: (a)
- ; a much larger rise needs a much smaller .
- At the poles is slightly larger, at the equator only slightly smaller, and in a lift going up is larger.
- On the moon is about , so .
- So the answer is (a) on the surface of the moon.