Put a uniform meter scale horizontally on your extended index fingers with the left one at 0.00 cm and the right one at 90.00 cm. When you attempt to move both the fingers slowly towards the center, initially only the left finger slips with respect to the scale and the right finger does not. After some distance, the left finger stops and the right one starts slipping. Then the right finger stops at a distance x_R from the center (50.00 cm) of the scale and the left one starts slipping again. This happens because of the difference in the frictional forces on the two fingers. If the coefficients of static and dynamic friction between the fingers and the scale are 0.40 and 0.32, respectively, the value of x_R (in cm) is ______.

When water is filled carefully in a glass, one can fill it to a height h above the rim of the glass due to the surface tension of water. To calculate h just before water starts flowing, model the shape of the water above the rim as a disc of thickness h having semicircular edges, as shown schematically in the figure. When the pressure of water at the bottom of this disc exceeds what can be withstood due to the surface tension, the water surface breaks near the rim and water starts flowing from there. If the density of water, its surface tension and the acceleration
due to gravity are 10³ kg m⁻³ , 0.07 Nm⁻¹ and 10 ms⁻² , respectively, the value of h (in mm) is _________.

As shown schematically in the figure, two vessels contain water solutions (at temperature T) of potassium permanganate (KMnO₄) of different concentrations n₁ and n₂ (n₁ > n₂) molecules per unit volume with $$\Delta $$n = (n₁ − n₂) << n₁. When they are connected by a tube of small length l and cross-sectional area S, KMnO₄ starts to diffuse from the left to the right vessel through the tube. Consider the collection of molecules to behave as dilute ideal gases and the difference in their partial pressure in the two vessels causing the diffusion. The speed v of the molecules is limited by the viscous force −$$\beta $$v on each molecule, where $$\beta $$ is a constant. Neglecting all terms of the order ($$\Delta $$n)², which of the following is/are correct? (k_B is the Boltzmann constant)

A circular disc of radius R carries surface charge density
$$\sigma \left( r \right) = {\sigma _0}\left( {1 - {r \over R}} \right)$$, where $$\sigma $$₀ is a constant and r is the distance from the center of the disc. Electric flux through a large spherical surface that encloses the charged disc completely is $$\phi $$₀. Electric flux through another spherical surface of radius $${R \over 4}$$ and concentric with the disc is $$\phi $$. Then the ratio $${{{\phi _0}} \over \phi }$$ is ________.