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A spherical drop of liquid splits into identical spherical drops. If is the surface energy of the original drop and is the total surface energy of the resulting drops, the (ignoring evaporation), . Then value of is ______:
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Let be the radius of bigger drop and be the radius of smaller drop.
Here, volume will remain conserved, so .
As surface energy is stated as , here, is surface tension and is surface area.
Thus, and
The ratio is
Hence, the value of .
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