Why Is It So? — Season 1, Episode 9: Soap Bubbles and Soap Films

Episode synopsis

Miller's experiments on soap films show the pressure on soap bubbles, plus the fact that soap films always form a surface of least energy.

More episodes from Season 1

• E1The Idea of the Center of Gravity
• E2Newton's First Law of Motion-Inertia
• E33. Newton's Second Law of Motion – The Elevator Problem
• E4Newton's Third Law of Motion – Momentum
• E5Energy and Momentum
• E6Concerning Falling Bodies and Projectiles
• E7The Simple Pendulum and Other Oscillating Things
• E8Adventures with Bernoulli
• E10Atmospheric Pressure – The Properties of Gases
• E11Centrifugal Force and Other Strange Matters
• E12The Strange Behavior of Rolling Things
• E13Archimedes' Principle