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Soap Bubbles and Laplace's Law - contradicts intuition

What happens to a soap bubble as the outside pressure is increased?Imagine you blow a soap bubble at atmospheric pressure. The bubble equilibrates to some radius, $R_{0}$, with some internal pressure,...

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Answer by Eddy for Soap Bubbles and Laplace's Law - contradicts intuition

The source of the contradiction is the assumption that the pressure inside the bubble remains constant as the pressure outside the bubble increases. This is not the case. If the volume of the bubble...

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