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- From: bhoughto@sedona.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: bubble in container
- Date: 30 Dec 1992 21:02:33 GMT
- Organization: Intel Corp., Chandler, Arizona
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- In article <29DEC199215373722@venus.tamu.edu> dwr2560@venus.tamu.edu (RING, DAVID WAYNE) writes:
- >Let's see if we can make the paradox a little clearer. Start with the
- >sealed jar of incompressible fluid. Our gremlin builds a small sphere
- >near the bottom of the container which naturally will contain a bit of
- >fluid. Then through a tube he drains the sphere and fills it with
- >air at the local fluid pressure. He then breaks the sphere and lets the
- >bubble rise to the top, increasing the pressure everywhere. When the
- >bubble reaches the top he reverses the procedure, surrounding it with
- >a sphere, filling it with fluid, and breaking the sphere.
- >
- >The final state has the same fluid in the same volume but different
- >pressure. In fact one can repeat the procedure ad infinitum to get
- >as high a pressure as one likes.
- >
- >:-)
-
- Keep smiling.
-
- There's no paradox, only a misapprehension.
-
- The pressure in the bubble can not change unless the number
- of atoms of gas change, the temperature of the bubble
- changes, or the volume of the bubble changes.
-
- (BTW, Since the fluid is incompressible, it is also inextensible,
- since it couldn't have been compressed enough to extend any).
-
- In this situation, in fact, the bubble will rise only
- because the fluid will fall so as to reduce the
- gravitational potential energy of the system (this assumes
- that the density of the fluid is greater than that of the
- gas; and I do not expect this assumption to hold in all
- cases of incompressible fluids and ideal gases).
-
- However, if you let the vessel in which this experiment is
- conducted be an expandable one...
-
- --Blair
- "Flotsam vs. jetsam:
- the eternal struggle."
-