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Q.Give the expression for the excess pressure in an air bubble inside the liquid?

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An air bubble inside a liquid has only ONE liquid–air surface, so its excess internal pressure is Δp=2Tr\Delta p = \dfrac{2T}{r} (unlike a soap bubble in air, which has two surfaces and Δp=4Tr\Delta p = \dfrac{4T}{r}).

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Due to surface tension, the surface of a liquid behaves like a stretched elastic membrane that tends to contract, so the pressure just inside a curved liquid surface is always greater than the pressure just outside it.

Air bubble inside a liquid

An air bubble formed inside a liquid (e.g., an air bubble rising inside water) has a single spherical surface separating the air inside from the liquid outside — it is not a thin film with two surfaces like a soap bubble. For a single spherical liquid surface of radius rr and surface tension TT, the excess pressure inside over outside is:

Δp=pinside−poutside=2Tr\Delta p = p_{\text{inside}} - p_{\text{outside}} = \frac{2T}{r} …

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