Question: When two soap bubbles touch, the larger is inflated by the smaller until they form a single bubble. This rather counter - intuitive phenomenon can

When two soap bubbles touch, the larger is inflated by the smaller until they form a single bubble. This rather counter-intuitive phenomenon can be understood using surface tension, whose value for soapy water is 0.0370 N/m.
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Part (a)
What is the gauge pressure, in pascals, inside a soap bubble with a 1.7-cm radius?
Part (b)
What is the gauge pressure, in pascals, inside a soap bubble with a 3.8-cm radius?
Part (c)
What is the gauge pressure, in pascals, inside the single bubble they form if no air is lost when they touch?

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