Meniscus Definition and 17 Threads

Hi PF! Do any of you know a good way to detect the meniscus of the attached image (in MATLAB)? I have a very ghetto method, and would like something more automated. Thanks for your help!

Hello Everyone, I have been working on a lens design that requires a concentric meniscus lens. Initially I was under the impression that r1 should equal r2 for the light to exit at infinity when entering at infinity. However my ray diagram shows different, it shows the light is being bent...

I will refer to this paper for some relevant bits of theory. They write that the component of the force between the solid and liquid parallel to the solid-liquid interface, which appears near the contact line (in the dotted region), is ##\gamma_{SV} + \gamma_{LV} - \gamma_{SL}##, which by...

I've been reading up on capillary action in a tube, and I have some questions: Say we insert a tube in a pool of fluid; Jurin's Law expression is ##h=\frac{2\sigma \cos \phi}{r\rho g}##. However, this height is not the height of the fluid measured from the bottom of the tube, but rather the...

For water in a tube wouldn't meniscus formation increase the free surface area of water

Hi, I was wondering about the meniscus we get in a round tube, like a test tube or a boiling tube, or even a classic measuring cylinder. If we have a square transparent rectangle with water in - would this at all reduce the effect of the meniscus? How else is the effect of the meniscus reduced...

Homework Statement I need to find three potential reasons for my .5% error in a lab where I used the Archimedes Principle to measure the density of Iron. We only used a graduated cylinder full of water and an iron mass. I measured the water level from the meniscus. We used two different...

Homework Statement A converging meniscus lens is made of glass with index of refraction n = 1.55, and its sides have radii of curvature of 4.5 cm and 9 cm. The concave surface is placed upward and filled with carbon tetrachloride which has index of refraction n' = 1.46. Using the result in...

Why is there excess pressure always on the concave side or surface of the meniscus? In my book it is also written that excess pressure balance the vertical resultant forces due to surface tension. How can a pressure balance a force? My teacher said that shape of meniscus does not depend on...

Homework Statement A converging meniscus lens is made of glass with index of refraction n = 1.55, and its sides have radii of curvature of 4.5 cm and 9 cm. The concave surface is placed upward and filled with carbon tetrachloride which has index of refraction n' = 1.46. Determine the focal...

Hello, I was thinking about how would capillary action change in a tube (classic example) and in a tube fitted inside another tube (considering water as the liquid involved). This is no homework question, it's just a thought which striked my mind but I don't have sufficient basic knowledge...

I have a question regarding forces in meniscus. Lets assume we have capillary 1cm in diameter. We pour some water into the capillary. We will observe concave meniscus. If we add some water (so water level exceed the height of the capillary) we will observe convex meniscus. Not let's...

A converging meniscus lens has an index of refraction of 1.55 and radii of curvature for its surfaces of 6.00 cm and 11.0 cm. The concave surface is placed upward and filled with carbon tetrachloride which has n = 1.46. What is the focal length of the glass combination? So I tried using the...

Homework Statement Find focal length for meniscus convex (3) Given r = 15, and n = 1.5 Homework Equations Lens maker's equation The Attempt at a Solution I can find the rest except #3 and #6 (they are opposite sign of each other) I had (1/r1 - 1/r2) gives zero... which is wrong... I...

Consider the free body diagram of a surface element of a water - glass meniscus in a vacuum. Along the line normal to the surface, the water pressure acts towards the vacuum, and the direction of the surface tension 'curvature force' depends on whether the surface curves like a 'u' or like an...

Earlier this year, a team of scientists demonstrated a tiny boat that uses surface tension, but no moving parts to navigate through water (see http://www.pitt.edu/news2009/Cho.pdf" ). I wonder if a boat with hydrophilic material at the back and hydrophobic material at the front can propel...

All else being unchanged, how would the surface properties (sound propagation, fountaining, breaking waves, ripples, bouyancy, suspensiveness, cavitation, bubbling, boundary conditions, etc.) of water differ if its meniscus were reversed?