A gram of mercury is placed between two parallel glass plates. What force must be applied to the top plate so that the mercury has the shape of a round cake with a radius of r = 5 cm. The surface tension of mercury is a = 0.465 N/cm. Assume that mercury does not wet glass at all, so that the angle between the edge of the free surface of mercury and the glass plate is zero.
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