Soap Bubbles

C.V. Boys

204 pages, parution le 01/01/1959

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Résumé

This is the only complete edition of Soap Hubbies in print; it contains almost half again as much material as any other. All 83 illustrations, including the full-page color plate, have been reproduced, as have the author's hints on performing his experiments and an up-to-the-minute listing of sources of supply and trade names.

The book consists of dozens of experiments, explanations of the principles they demonstrate, and, finally, more detailed discussions of the color and thickness of bubbles. The natural laws that come into play throughout the book are fascinating in themselves, but they also have ramifications in many other areas of modern physics. The phenomenon, for example, of liquid-surface tension has applications that range from recent attempts to understand the atomic nucleus to the theories of the genesis of our planetary system.

The exposition is amazingly lucid as Boys shows how liquid films, surface tension, and related phenomena react to heat, motion, music, magnetic fields; how a jet of water may amplify sound; and how oil smooths troubled waters. There are experiments with capillary action, liquid drops, tension and curvature of soap films, liquid cylinders and jets, soap bubbles on frames, soap bubbles with ether, bubbles other than soap bubbles, composite bubbles, and much more.

Contents

Introductory
The elastic skin of liquids
Capillary attraction
Capillarity of different liquids
Pouring oil on troubled water
Liquid drops
Soap-films; their tension and curvature
Liquid cylinders and jets
A water telephone
Soap-films on frames
Soap-bubbles and ether
Experiments with soap-bubbles
The soap-bubble
Bubbles other than soap-bubbles
Composite bubbles
Out-of-door bubbles
The colour and thickness of bubbles
Practical hints

Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Dover
Auteur(s)	C.V. Boys
Parution	01/01/1959
Nb. de pages	204
Format	13,6 x 20,2
Couverture	Broché
Poids	202g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780486205427
ISBN13	978-0-486-20542-7