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- From: mdturner@riker.acs.calpoly.edu (M Turner)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: The Bubbles
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.211139.160466@zeus.calpoly.edu>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 21:11:39 GMT
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- Ching-Long Wu (PHYS U790315) writes
- > I am quite interested in the behavior of the bubbles that floating
- >on water's surface. I have several questions:
- > 1. What's the shape of it? Is it a perfect semi-sphere?
-
- If the water surface were stationary it would have to be a perfect hemisphere.
- The base of the bubble would change to eliptical as the water's motion
- incresed. Size depends on the radius of the bubble (the volume of gas) in
- comparison to the curvature of the wave.
-
- > 2. Why does it break? And what's the machanism of it's breaking?
-
- I say the curvature of the water controls the machanism. If the bubble in on
- a crest of a wave tension in the membrane will pull the ends and snap it off
- the surface. If the bubble is in a trough too much pressure builds in the
- bubble and it pops, it gets pinched by the water.
-
- > 3. I suppose there are some relation between a bubble's 'life' and 'size'.
- [deleted exp set up]
-
- Most likely for a fixed volume of gas the buble grows until the film gets
- stretech too thin, then pop.
-
- > 4. What if the bubbles are floating in the air? If there is no gravitation,
- > will them break?
-
- I'd say air pressures in odd ball coinfigurations, like water, will pinch or
- squeez the buble.
-
- > I hope you are also interested in these questions...
-
- very much so
-
- Mark Turner
- mdturner@riker.acs.calpoly.edu
-