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Q.Give the expression for the excess pressure in a liquid drop?

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A spherical liquid drop has one free surface, so the excess pressure inside it is delta P = 2T/R.

Due to surface tension, the pressure inside a curved liquid surface is always greater than the pressure outside it. For a spherical liquid drop of radius R and surface tension T (which has only ONE liquid surface, unlike a soap bubble which has two), the excess pressure inside over outside is:

delta P = P_inside - P_outside = 2T / R

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