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

Telangana TsbieTelangana Board of Intermediate Education (Intermediate 1st Year) 2020Subjective· 2mImportance★★★★★
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An air bubble inside a liquid has only ONE liquid surface, so its excess pressure is ΔP=2T/r\Delta P = 2T/r (half that of a soap bubble in air, which has two surfaces).

An air bubble formed inside a liquid has a single curved liquid surface separating the air inside from the liquid outside. Surface tension makes this surface behave like a stretched membrane trying to contract, which raises the pressure inside the bubble above the pressure of the surrounding liquid.

For a spherical surface of radius rr and surface tension TT, the Laplace pressure relation for ONE surface is:

ΔP=Pinside−Poutside=2Tr\Delta P = P_{inside} - P_{outside} = \frac{2T}{r}

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