The molecular mechanism of surface tension
Abstract
It is shown that consideration of the condition of single molecules in the surface can provide an explanation of the tendency of liquid surfaces to contract, but that in order to understand the origin of the tensile tangential stress in the surface it is necessary to examine the variation of averaged quantities, namely pressure and density.
- Publication:
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Physics Education
- Pub Date:
- March 1971
- DOI:
- 10.1088/0031-9120/6/2/001
- Bibcode:
- 1971PhyEd...6...79B