https://gdpark.blog/tags/surface-tension/Recent content in Surface Tension on gdpark.blogHugoenSun, 10 Jul 2016 00:00:00 +0000https://gdpark.blog/posts/thermal-statistical-64-kelvin-s-formula-and-why-water-boils/Sat, 09 Jul 2016 00:00:00 +0000https://gdpark.blog/posts/thermal-statistical-64-kelvin-s-formula-and-why-water-boils/We dig into why water boils by layering surface tension on top of phase-transition theory, then crank through the math to land on Kelvin’s formula.https://gdpark.blog/posts/thermal-statistical-65-gibbs-free-energy-of-a-water-droplet-and-bubble-nucleation/Sun, 10 Jul 2016 00:00:00 +0000https://gdpark.blog/posts/thermal-statistical-65-gibbs-free-energy-of-a-water-droplet-and-bubble-nucleation/Walk through calculating the Gibbs free energy of a liquid droplet in vapor equilibrium, factoring in surface tension to set up the physics behind bubble nucleation.