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Principle:
A vessel containing liquid is rotated
about an axis. The liquid surface
forms a paraboloid of rotation, the
parameters of which will be deter-
mined as a function of the angular
velocity.
Tasks:
On the rotating liquid surface, the
following are determined:
1. the shape,
2. the location of the lowest point as
a function of the angular velocity,
3. the curvature.
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Fig. 1: Experimental set up for determining the parameters of a rotating liquid surface.
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Since the cell is closed at the top, except for a small filling Fig. 2: Equilibrium of forces on a particle in the surface of a
aperture, higher speeds can also be selected. rotating liquid.
7 = 2QT
to gravity
and the centrifugal force 2
the exponent is obtained
f2 = mW ( r W )
B = 1.99 (see (1))
where W denotes the angular velocity.
(Figure 2, in the rotating reference system.) From the slope of the curve in Fig. 4, one obtains the propor-
tionality factor
From Fig. 2, one obtains
a2
= 8.08 105 ms.
dy v2x 6g
tan a =
dx g
and from this From the general equation
a
ydx 0, a ~ v2.
0
if 2a is the width of the cell, and from this the location of the From this, and from equation (2), one obtains, for y = 0
lowest point of the rotating liquid,
8.08 10 5
1 v2a2 a v2 = 0.0510 W2 (3)
c . (1) 3.982 10 4
6 g
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