Capillary action

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Discusses capillary rise, water tension, and hydraulic head determination using piezometers.

Covers forced flow along a capillary and the Lucas Washburn equation.

Covers the fundamentals of gas-liquid interfaces, including surface tension and capillary action.

Explores surface tension's microscopic interpretation and its impact on creating interfaces between immiscible fluids.

Explores wettability, force balance, wetting behavior, and capillary length in liquids.

Covers the effects of adding an ice cube to water and the variation of surface tension.

Explores surface tension in soap bubbles, covering Laplace's law, wetting phenomena, capillary rise, and overpressure.

Explores capillarity, wetting, and surface tension, discussing contact angles, hysteresis, and wetting states.