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The outer surface of a beaker containing ice cubes becomes wet in short while - Give scientific reason.

Question  The outer surface of a beaker containing ice cubes becomes wet in short while. Answer  When ice cubes are placed in a beaker, ice starts melting.  The heat required for melting is absorbed from the surrounding air and also from the beaker to some extent.  Hence, the temperature of the air and beaker falls.  The capacity of air to hold water vapour depends upon the temperature of the air, and this capacity decreases as the temperature decreases.  At a certain low temperature, the surrounding air becomes saturated with water vapour present in it.  As the temperature falls further, the air is unable to hold all the water vapour.  Hence, the extra water vapour starts condensing on the cold outer surface of the beaker in the form of minute drops.  Therefore, The outer surface of the beaker containing ice cubes becomes wet in a short while.

If a feather and a stone are released from the top of a building simultaneously, the stone reaches the ground earlier than the feather

Question: 

GIVE REASON :

If a feather and a stone are released from the top of a building simultaneously, the stone reaches the ground earlier than the feather.

Answer :

the motion of the body falling in air is accelerated due to the earth's gravitational force on the body. The force due to buoyancy of air acts on the body in the upward direction. As the body falls, the friction with air opposes its motion.
This opposition due to air depends on the size, shape, density and velocity of the body. It is greater for a feather than for a stone. Hence, the stone has greater downward acceleration than the feather. therefore the stone reaches the ground earlier than the feather though they are released simultaneously from the same height.


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