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When a capillary tube is dipped in a liquid, the liquid rises to a height h in the tube. The free liquid surface inside the tube is hemispherical in the shape. The tube is now pushed down so that the height of the tube outside the liquid is less than h.

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The liquid will come out of the tube like in a small fountain.
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The liquid will ooze out of the tube slowly.
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The liquid will fill the tube but not come out of its upper end.
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The free liquid surface inside the tube will not be hemispherical.
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Solution

The correct options are
C The liquid will fill the tube but not come out of its upper end.
D The free liquid surface inside the tube will not be hemispherical.
Consider a capillary tube of radius r immersed in a liquid of surface tension T and density ρ. The height to which the liquid will rise in the capillary tube is given as 2Tcosθrρg=2TRρg
or
hR=2Tρg which is a constant.
Thus we get
h1R1=h2R2
When the tube is pushed down we are increasing the h, thereby reducing the radius R of the of the liquid meniscus. Thus as h increases, the level of the liquid becomes more and more flat but does not overflow
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