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- From: bhoughto@sedona.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: bubble in container
- Date: 5 Jan 1993 00:08:46 GMT
- Organization: Intel Corp., Chandler, Arizona
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- References: <1ht2p9INNfie@chnews.intel.com> <1JAN199302310655@zeus.tamu.edu> <1993Jan4.170325.27320@novell.com>
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- In article <1993Jan4.170325.27320@novell.com> dseeman@novell.com (Daniel Seeman) writes:
- >>bhoughto@sedona.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton) writes...
- >>>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.
- >
- >What if you cool the bubble. Does the pressure change then?
-
- Yep.
-
- But the volume can't change.
-
- The only way for the fluid to alter the pressure in the
- bubble is to compress it or expand it, but since the fluid
- is incompressible it can't do either of those.
-
- If you heat or cool the bubble (or the bubble and the
- fluid) you change the pressure of the entire container.
-
- If you expand or contract the entire container, you change
- the volume of the entire container, which changes the volume
- of the bubble, which--if the temperature isn't simultaneously
- changed--means you change the pressure of the entire container.
-
- If you add gas to or remove gas from the bubble, you change
- the pressure of the entire container.
-
- Moving the bubble around in the container accomplishes
- none of these, and therefore does not change the pressure
- anywhere in the container, unless the change in pressure
- is accompanied by a change in the temperature of the gas
- (which, come to think of it, we haven't really ruled out,
- but we've given no mechanism for such a transfer of energy).
-
- --Blair
- "'Pop!' goes the weasel..."
-