Assume a water strider has a roughly circular foot of radius 0.02 mm. (a) What is the

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Assume a water strider has a roughly circular foot of radius 0.02 mm.
(a) What is the maximum possible upward force on the foot due to surface tension of the water?
(b) What is the maximum mass of this water strider so that it can keep from breaking through the water surface? The strider has six legs?
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Physics

ISBN: 978-0077339685

2nd edition

Authors: Alan Giambattista, Betty Richardson, Robert Richardson

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