For example, the colours seen in a soap bubble arise from interference of light reflecting off the front and back surfaces of the thin soap film.
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In contrast, a vertical soap film is affected by gravity and so the liquid tends to drain, causing the soap film to thin at the top.
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For this reason, ( open ) soap films of small size are minimal surfaces ( small size reduces gravity effects, and openness prevents pressure from building up.
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Such scale models often employed stocking material or tights, or soap film, as they behave in a very similar way to structural fabrics ( they cannot carry shear ).
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To continue the physical analogy of soap film given above, these Goldschmidt solutions can be visualized as instances in which the soap film breaks as the circular wires are stretched apart.
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To continue the physical analogy of soap film given above, these Goldschmidt solutions can be visualized as instances in which the soap film breaks as the circular wires are stretched apart.
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With an experiment of soap film and a short glass fiber, mathematicians at New York University have worked out some underlying principles of how something like a willow tree withstands powerful gusts.
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By the Young Laplace equation the curvature of a soap film is proportional to the difference in pressure between the sides : if it is zero, the membrane has zero mean curvature.
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Physical models of area-minimizing minimal surfaces can be made by dipping a wire frame into a soap solution, forming a soap film, which is a minimal surface whose boundary is the wire frame.
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The question as to whether a minimal surface with given boundary exists is called Plateau's problem after the Belgian physicist Joseph Plateau who carried out experiments on soap films in the mid-nineteenth century.
