Apoorva Arora
Last Activity: 11 Years ago

It is because of surface tension that pressure of a liquid increases within a bubble. Consider the free-body diagram of a bubble as shown in Fig.1.8. If the force due to surface tension at the edge is balanced by the pressure force inside the bubble, we have

so,

where p is the pressure difference between inside the drop and that outside. In addition the pressure inside the bubble is greater than that outside.