Question
A big drop of water is sprayed into 1000 small droplets. Find the ratio of surface potential energy of drop to single droplet?
Solution
Let,
Radius of small droplet be 'r',
Radius of big drop be 'R'.
Volume of water will remain constant on splitting the drop into droplets.
Therefore,
R3 = nr3
Here n = 1000,
Therefpre, R = 10 r
Now, the surface of the potential energy of drop is,