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  2. Contact angle - Wikipedia

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    This is often the case for water on bare metallic or ceramic surfaces, [15] although the presence of an oxide layer or contaminants on the solid surface can significantly increase the contact angle. Generally, if the water contact angle is smaller than 90°, the solid surface is considered hydrophilic [16] and if the water contact angle is ...

  3. Jurin's law - Wikipedia

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    For a water-filled glass tube in air at standard conditions for temperature and pressure, γ = 0.0728 N/m at 20 °C, ρ = 1000 kg/m 3, and g = 9.81 m/s 2. Because water spreads on clean glass, the effective equilibrium contact angle is approximately zero. [4] For these values, the height of the water column is

  4. Accelerometer - Wikipedia

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    An accelerometer measures proper acceleration, which is the acceleration it experiences relative to freefall and is the acceleration felt by people and objects. [2] Put another way, at any point in spacetime the equivalence principle guarantees the existence of a local inertial frame, and an accelerometer measures the acceleration relative to that frame. [4]

  5. Sessile drop technique - Wikipedia

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    This force is related to the contact angle by the following equation: cos ⁡ θ = F − F b I σ , {\displaystyle \cos \theta ={\frac {F-F_{\text{b}}}{I\sigma }},} where F is the total force measured by the force meter, F b is the force of buoyancy due to the solid sample displacing the liquid, I is the wetted length, and σ is the known ...

  6. Capillary length - Wikipedia

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    Here is a picture of a water droplet on a lotus leaf. If the temperature is 20 o then λ c {\displaystyle \lambda _{c}} = 2.71mm The capillary length or capillary constant is a length scaling factor that relates gravity and surface tension .

  7. Leverett J-function - Wikipedia

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    In petroleum engineering, the Leverett J-function is a dimensionless function of water saturation describing the capillary pressure, [1] = / ⁡where is the water saturation measured as a fraction, is the capillary pressure (in pascal), is the permeability (measured in m²), is the porosity (0-1), is the surface tension (in N/m) and is the contact angle.

  8. Angular acceleration - Wikipedia

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    Angular acceleration has physical dimensions of angle per time squared, measured in SI units of radians per second squared (rad ⋅ s-2). In two dimensions, angular acceleration is a pseudoscalar whose sign is taken to be positive if the angular speed increases counterclockwise or decreases clockwise, and is taken to be negative if the angular ...

  9. Numerical aperture - Wikipedia

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    where n is the index of refraction of the medium in which the lens is working (1.00 for air, 1.33 for pure water, and typically 1.52 for immersion oil; [1] see also list of refractive indices), and θ is the half-angle of the maximum cone of light that can enter or exit the lens. In general, this is the angle of the real marginal ray in the