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For a bubble of radius r, the pressure from the film surface tension is given by the Laplace-Young law

(1)

where and are the inner and outer radii of the bubble, respectively, and is the surface tension of the fluid. Letting r be the average of and (actually, ) gives

(2)

Bragg Raft, Bubble Chamber, Drop, Sonoluminescence, Stokes Velocity




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