School of Chemistry

JAM-2024
Mock Test No: 2
Subject: Liquid State

Date: 15/04/2023 Time: 1 hour 30 mins Full Marks: 50

SECTION A: Q1 - Q5 carry ONE mark each

1. A liquid state is characterised by
(a) short range order (b) long range disorder
(c) short range disorder (d) short range order and long range disorder
2. Consider aqueous solution of two compounds A and B of identical
concentrations. The surface tension of the solution of A is smaller
B
than that of pure water while for for B it is greater than that of pure
water under identical conditions. From this one infers that
(a) Surface concentration of A is lesser than its bulk concentration.
(b) Surface concentration of B is greater than its bulk concentration.
(c) Surface concentration of A is greater than that of B.
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(d) Surface concentration of A is lesser than that of B.
3. Water rises through a height h in a capillary tube of internal radius
(r). If γ is the surface tension of water, then the pressure difference
between the liquid level in the container and the lowest point of the
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concave meniscus is
(a) γr (b) γr (c) 2γ
r
r
(d) 2γ .
4. A number of small drops of mercury coalesce adiabatically to form a
single drop. The temperature of drop
(a) increases (b) decreases (c) remains unchanged (d) may decrease
or increase depending upon size
5. If the surface of a liquid is plane, then the angle of contact of the
liquid with the walls of container is
(a) Acute angle (b) Obtuse angle (c) 90◦ (d) 0◦ .

SECTION A: Q6 - Q15 carry TWO mark each

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 6. Water rises up to a height h1 in a capillary tube of radius r, the mass of
the water lifted in the capillary tube is M . If the radius of the capillary
tube is doubled, the mass of water that will rise in the capillary tube
will be
(a) M (b) 2M (c) M2 (d) 4M.
7. A capillary tube when immersed vertically in a liquid records a rise
of 3 cm. If the tube is immersed in the liquid at an angle of 60 with
the vertical, then length of the liquid column along the tube will be
(a) 2 cm (b) 3 cm (c) 6 cm (d) 9 cm.

8. If soap bubbles of different radii are in communication with each other

(a) Air flow from the larger bubble into the smaller one until the two bubbles
are of equal size.
(b) The sizes of the bubbles remain unchanged.
(c) Air flows from the smaller into the larger one and lager bubble grows at the
expense of the smaller one.
(d) Air flows from the larger into the smaller one becomes equal to that of the
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larger one and the large one equal to that of the smaller one.
9. Viscosity coefficient of a liquid
(a) decreases with temperature
(b) increases with temperature
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(c) is independent of temperature
(d) first increases then decreases with temperature.
10. The viscosity of gases is due to the transport of momentum from
molecules of slower moving layer to molecules of faster moving layer
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(a) The statement is the origin of viscosity in gases.

(b) The statement is wrong because the viscosity originated from friction be-
tween two adjacent layers.
(c) Viscosity has nothing to do with the transport of momentum.
(d) The gaseous state cannot have any viscosity, only liquid and solid state has
viscosity.
11. Viscosity coefficient of a liquid depends on temperature as (θ is a +ve
constant)
θ θ
(a) ln η ∝ 1
T
(b) η = e− T (c) η ∝ eθT (d) η ∝ e T .
12. Which of the following are the dimensional formula of dynamic vis-
cosity and surface tenstion?
(a) MLT−1 and MT−2 (b) ML−1 T−1 and MT−2
−2 −2 −1 −1
(c) ML T and ML T (d) ML2 T−2 and MLT−1 .

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13. According to Tate’s law when a glass capillary of radius r is dipped
in water then the capillary rise is given by (terms are of usual signif-
icance)
2γ 2γ cos θ γ cos θ 2γ cos θ
(a) h = ρgr cos θ
(b) h = ρgr
(c) h = ρgr
(d) h = ρgr2
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14. Spreading coefficient of phase β on α phase is defined by (Wa is the
work of adhesion, Wc is the work of cohesion)
(a) WAαβ − Wcβ (b) WAαβ − Wcα (c) Wcβ − WAαβ (d) Wcα − WAαβ .
15. The change in surface energy when a mercury drop of radius R splits
up into 1000 droplets of
(a) 8πR2 γ (b) 16πR2 γ (c) 24πR2 γ (d) 36πR2 γ.

SECTION B: Q16 - Q20 carry TWO mark each

16. Critical velocity of an incompressible fluid depends on

(a) viscosity coefficient of the fluid.
(b) radius of the capillary tube. B
(c) density of the fluid.
(d) length of the capillary tube.
17. Which of the following statement(s) is/are correct regarding the vapor
pressure of a liquid?
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(a) Higher the vapor pressure of a pure liquid higher is its boiling point.
(b) Higher the vapor pressure of a pure liquid higher is its freezing point.
(c) In presence of a non-volatile solute vapor pressure of a liquid decreases.
(d) Vapor pressure of a solvent in an ideally dilute solution can be expressed by
Raoult’s law.
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18. Which of the following statement(s) is/are correct regarding surface

tension of a liquid?
(a) Surface tension is an extensive property.
(b) In presence of surfactants, surface tension of a liquid decreases.
(c) Surface tension of a liquid vanishes at Boyle temperature.
(d) Surface tension and surface energy have the same dimension.
19. Which of the following phenomena are related to surface tension and
its measurement?
(a) Harkins-Brown constant
(b) Parachor
(c) Maragoni effect
(d) Sutherland equation.

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20. Which of the following are related to viscosity of a liquid?
(a) terminal velocity
(b) average molar mass of a polymeric solution.
(c) Eötvös-Ramsay and Shield equation.
(d) thixotropic fluid.

SECTION C: Q21 - Q25 carry ONE mark each

21. A liquid density 1.1 g cm−3 climbs to a height of 5.0 cm when a capillary
with internal radius of 0.2 mm is dipped into it. The surface tension
(in N m−1 ) of the liquid is closest to ............ [correct upto second
decimal point]
22. In the determination of viscosity coefficient of a liquid using Poiseuille’s
formula if relative error in the determination of radius of capillary is
+1% then relative error in viscosity coefficient is ......... %. [correct
upto integer value]
23. Spherical particles of a given material of density p are released from
rest inside a liquid medium of lower density. The viscous drag force
B
may be approximated by the Stoke’s law i.e; Fd = 6πηrv, where η is
the viscosity of the medium, r is the radius of the particle and v is its
instantaneous velocity. If τ (m) is the time taken by a particle of mass
m to reach half its terminal velocity, then the ratio ττ(8m) is .............
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(m)

24. A capillary tube of radius r can support a liquid of weight 6.28×10−4 N.

If the surface tension of the liquid is 5 × 10−2 N m−1 , the radius of
capillary must be ........ ×10−3 m. [correct upto 1st decimal point]
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25. Three capillaries of same length but internal radii 3r, 4r, 5r are con-
nected in series and a liquid flows through them in streamline con-
dition. If the pressure difference across the third capillary is 8.1 mm,
then the pressure difference across the first capillary will be ...........
mmHg. [correct upto 1st decimal point]

SECTION C: Q26 - Q30 carry TWO mark each

26. For a certain liquid ln η vs T1 plot gives straight line with slope of 600
K. The viscosity activation energy is ......... kJ mol−1 . [correct upto
2nd decimal point]
27. A spherical air bubble is created within a liquid of surface tension
72 dyn cm−1 . If the volume of the bubble is π6 cm3 , the excess pressure
(in dyn cm−2 ) inside the bubble is ......... (integer value).

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28. Two flasks A and B have equal volume. A contains H2 gas and B
contains an equal mass of CH4 . A is maintained at 300 K while B
is maintained at 600 K. Assuming ideal behavior for the gases and
collision diameter of H2 and CH4 to be equal, the ratio of coefficient
of viscosity in two flasks is 1:...........
29. Work done in blowing a soap bubble of diameter 2 cm, is (surface
tension is 3 × 10−2 N m−1 ) ............ ×10−5 J. [correct upto 2nd decimal
point]
30. A water drop of diameter 1 cm breaks into 1000 similar droplets of
same diameter. The gain in the surface energy will be ........... (Given:
γ = 0.075 N m−1 ) (in the unit of mJ) [correct upto third decimal point]

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