MY SOAP EXPERIMENT --- dated 11/5/2005

well it was just a trial ---- i was taking bath and suddenly i felt why donot i
try to find a locus of the soap..

well actually i was reading in class 12 then i was constantly grilled for not
being able to find out appropriate locus of points in mathematics .It was simple
though but whenever i used to think deep of the various possibilities that are
possibly i used to find myself losing track .......

locus formula told to us was simple take any point(h,k) and from the geometrical
condition given try to find the expression relating h,k.

Now at around 10:00 am i began this nonsense of experiment as u may call it ---

i first wrote the following equation initial energy=final energy of a body with
all other factors(physical remaining constant).
now weight of soap was 50 grams
and i weight using the spring balance my parents brought me.
I placed the soap on water and was expecting it to move..

OBservation
the soap simply curved here and there and settled down at the bottom of the
container.

I was inquisitive for i felt that given the fact that soaps weight must have been
more than the weight of the equivalent amount of water that it replaced(equal to
its volume)

Next phase 10:15(15 minutes gone in bringing the copy to note observation and also
to write the first ever equation of mine on practical implementations..)

but then when i took the container out in the sun i thought now that sun rays are
falling some energy would be given to the water molecules and it would show some
zigzag movement.

observation
no such movement observed .my shoulder s dropped a bit because i have been knowing
that once energy is supplied that is some work is done every object would show
some physical or chemical response to it.
because energy conservation has to be followed always..

at about 11:50 am(when sun was almost near the top of the sky)
i saw a slight movement in the soap ... it looked as if it had moved a little...
i was i thought maybe due to the molecules of water getting heated up by the sun
energy..
now at this point i had three basic question s in my mind ------

first i could not understand why did the soap move was it the wind blowing around
which moved the upper molecules of water ?
but then had that been the case then it wont have been like that because if wind
was the factor that moved the upper water molecules then why did not the soap keep
on moving after sometime when i was feeling some breeze blowing ... the coconut
trees leaves were moving.

second i could not understand why did the sun s rays which were falling on soap
too were not being able to move it at the very first?
well the answer to this that i was contemplating was that may be because
constituent of soap is na2co3 and that of water is h2o have a different bond
structure and electronegativity difference of sodium and carbon and carbon oxygen
bond electronegativity diff may have had a stronger dipole moment then h2o and so
it would have been difficult to force a movement in soap because the surrounding
water molecules were not stirred up to the same extent so resistence was provided.
later when all the surrounding molecules of water which was in bulk so needed more
time to heat up was hot enough the soap had less resistance as
t directly proportional to 1/resistance...

now coming back to finding locus i took one corner of soap in the media (h,k)
and taking the moment about the other nearest corner i was seeking to get to a
relationship between hand k in both normal conditions and also in heated condition
i took water exerted thrust to be w N
and was acting uniformly on soap all over.....