Today is my first day as a Teacher's Assistant and I'm sharing some of these experiments with the students. Thank you so much! This video was fun!
@raygilmore82784 ай бұрын
I know this is an older video, but it was new to my 4th grade Science students. They loved it! Your videos are a regular part of my lessons and I wanted to let you know how much we love you and your content.
@neilsiebenthal86965 жыл бұрын
I asked my mom for adult supervision to try this. All she said was you're 30!!!
@kidskpadonou8944 жыл бұрын
wow u have 30 likes rn lol I would like this comment but I dont want to ruin the 30. If you lose or get a like ill like it but dont forget to reply to this comment or I wont remember ;)
@marcelszekowski3154 жыл бұрын
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@vibaj164 жыл бұрын
now you have a stack of likes
@bikdigdaddy4 жыл бұрын
@@kidskpadonou894 okay, like now
@Nycnycnyxnyc4 жыл бұрын
What? Why talk about age??
@TheAllBlackMan8 жыл бұрын
I think I know what was in your coffee that day. Soy. Soy proteins can do the same thing as the soap in your home experiment.
@JoachimVampire8 жыл бұрын
and also some kinds of oily flavours (like the ones on starbucks)
@JoachimVampire8 жыл бұрын
yeah, i noticed it in my tea too just today. maybe the temperature helps with that?
@abusalman54345 жыл бұрын
Thank goodness I haven’t drank soap for years.
@alexmallen57655 жыл бұрын
Or any other kind of emulsifier
@itsmemishh5 жыл бұрын
If you put water or milk in very hot pan these drops appear then to
@rahulboby77544 жыл бұрын
crisp and clear video which has no irritating intro and wast of time hats off!!!
@randomheartofgold9 жыл бұрын
I love all your videos, they're great. It's such an important thing to be doing: making learning about science entertaining.
@ScienceAsylum9 жыл бұрын
Huge improvement in video quality! Camera Upgrade? If so, what kind did you get? I've been looking into cameras lately... super expensive and I'm kind of at a loss on what I should get. It's a lot of money to spend on potentially the wrong camera. Unfortunately, I have no one around here that can help even with good suggestions. P.S. Good video :-) I've only tried some of these myself. I'll have to try the others soon.
@physicsgirl9 жыл бұрын
***** Heya. Nope, still using the same camera from the last year or so. It's a Canon 7D. I've just gotten better at using it lately. :)
@ScienceAsylum9 жыл бұрын
Physics Girl Nice! :-) Super expensive camera, although not too far off from what I was figuring I'd have to spend.
@sophiamalkani24958 жыл бұрын
The Science Asylum great
@MisterKhiladi06 жыл бұрын
Hi crazy
@rohitptnk035 жыл бұрын
You are great Science Asylum Love your explanations.
@samedwards6683 Жыл бұрын
Thanks so much for creating and sharing this educational and entertaining video. I hope that each day you are feeling better than the day before 🙏
@iankastelic8814 жыл бұрын
Hello Diana- Love your work! Thank you! 2 comments about your surface tension vid...you can do the screen over the jar with just a square of screen held over the mouth of a drinking glass just like you do with a paper. No need to attach it with the lid. Just make sure that the screen is only a bit larger than the diameter of the glass and that it is quite flat, not bowed. And...make a paperclip holder out of another paper clip to place the first one on the surface tension of the water. To do this, unfold a paperclip and bend the ends to make 2 parallel "arms". Place the place the new paperclip onto the arms and slowly lower it into the water., and,...shaboom! The unbent clip will float on the surface tension. I have found that the metal clips work just as well with this method as do the plastic-coated clips! Happy Science-ing! (yes...I stole it form you. I'm not proud about it, but there it is.) -Ian
@Epenser19 жыл бұрын
niiiiiice...
@JeanMolline9 жыл бұрын
Ha les tensions de surface, c'est vrai que c'est marrant, j'imagine déjà une future vidéo e-penser en français cette fois sur le sujet en élargissant peut-être à ce qu'on peut observer dans la nature (les insectes qui marchent voire même courent sur l'eau par exemple). Enfin je dis ça, je dis rien :P
@loickdel80279 жыл бұрын
C'est vrai que c'est génial et me fait même penser aux expériences du Dr Nozman en France. Par contre je comprends pas grand chose >< vu mon niveau de compréhension orale
@aph46039 жыл бұрын
Hehe pas mal! C'est pas mal la réactions des liquides. Sinon tu feras une vidéo sur les liquides non newtoniens? C'est drôle comme truc ;)
@ZEL0D9 жыл бұрын
Loïck Del Heureusement elle utilise un vocabulaire simple.
@loickdel80279 жыл бұрын
ZEL0D Ouais mais l'anglais à l'oral j'y arrive pas. Autant à l'écrit ça va bien mais l'oral...
@shaynmarshall81519 жыл бұрын
Hypothesis on soapy bubbles in the coffee: Coffee 🍵 (& oil based paint 🎨!) is a naturally oily liquid. Soap washes grease from skin and other surfaces by trapping the grease in little bubbles and allowing the water to rinse off the soap-trapped oils where water doesn't mix with oils naturally (over-simplification without going into chemistry diagrams). The soap (or soapy film) must be trapping the oils of the coffee into bubbles temporarily which then roll across the surface of the oily coffee bean steeped water. An interesting experiment to test this would be experimenting with different concentrations of coffee steep and seeing if the affect is made more dramatic when more oil is present in the liquid. My thoughts. Thank you for filming!
@unicycle7916 жыл бұрын
About soapy droplets: aip.scitation.org/doi/abs/10.1063/1.2335905?journalCode=phf If there are capillary waves then air cushion below droplet is replenished. Surface tension makes wavelength longer : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capillary_wave. So tiny vibrations keep replenishing the air cushion below the droplets.
@Nighthawkinlight9 жыл бұрын
Nice channel, very cool stuff. I've created the water spheres you did in your second demo using acoustic disturbances in one of my own videos.
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@PedroPinto114 жыл бұрын
The last one is actually the Leidenfrost effect. The pan is so hot that during the impact, a vapor layer is formed between the droplet and the pan, which makes it possible to "levitate" the water droplet. The droplet and the pan don't have any contact. Pretty amazing! Nice video!
@munstrumridcully9 жыл бұрын
The thing I find most fascinating about surface tension is how, at small scales, the major force acting on life is not gravity, but surface tension.
@jibeneyto918 жыл бұрын
In Fluid Mechanics, there's a dimensionless number that measures the importance of Surface Tension relative to Gravitational Forces, it's called the Bond Number. A very high Bond Number means that Surface Tension is not important. A low Bond Number (lower than 1) means that Surface Tension dominates. This is what happens with small bubbles of fluid because Bond Number is proportional to the square of the characteristic length in the geometry.
@GARYA-nm2oi4 жыл бұрын
The last one we have always seen , while making “dosa” in India 😂
@Sunintdeep4 жыл бұрын
😂😂😂yes
@yasxhxd3 жыл бұрын
Yasss😂
@coolstar78193 жыл бұрын
Yea
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@shmkrar1153 Жыл бұрын
All your videos are fascinating and fun! Thanks for helping me love physics even more! I hope you feel better soon
@BentheJuneBug9 жыл бұрын
I use a Chemex pour over to make my coffee in the morning. As the last bits of coffee fall out through the filter they make those spheres on the surface of the water and skid around for a while before plopping into the coffee (I usually watch it for a minute or too). I only wash the Chemex with soap about once every two weeks so I have a feeling that the effect is possible with only coffee. I wonder if the freshness of the coffee changes the effect-- as I grind decently fresh roasted beans-- and whether or not the cream/milk you added to it changed it at all. Regardless, these were all neat demos, and I guess I have more to think about when making coffee. Thanks!
@XpertPilotFSX9 жыл бұрын
For the second experiment, I might have an idea. I did a bit of research on that and found that soap contained some oils. But since soap seems to mix with water, I tried to find out how oil mixed with water. After some research (which is a few minutes of googling) I found that if you put detergent/soap into water, it is attracted to both oils and water, so it can help them combine to help form something called an emulsion. But that didn't explain why there were those circles floating on top of the water. So I though maybe by flicking something onto the surface, you could separate the water and the oils inside the soap again, so the oil would float on top. But then the detergent/soap would combine the two liquids once more. It may be a long explanation, but that was what I found. Hope it helped!
@lineikatabs9 жыл бұрын
Oh God, I've discovered #2 last year while drinking coffee as well! I've wondered for a bit about it, thought it has something to do with surface tension but that's where my knowledge and resources ended. I got so excited when I saw it on your video! Hopefully answers will come!
@TheNerubin9 жыл бұрын
If you have soap in a polar liquid (like water and by extension coffee) the unpolar part of the soap molecules will point outwards because the polar parts "want to be in the water". So you have a hydrophobe layer on top of the coffee. My guess is that the bubbles are basicly soap bubbles that are created by the stirring and have their polar sides on the outside, so that the unpolar film on the coffee rejects the bubble.
@ChongFrisbee9 жыл бұрын
TheNerubin That is what I was thinking, but you said it better than I could. Kuddos!
@axxization9 жыл бұрын
+TheNerubin It's called forming micelles.
@chaitanyaathale7 жыл бұрын
Well, I think +TheNerubin is correct in calling them soap bubbles in the #coffeee. +axxization: a minor correction: Micelles are (strictly defined) soap-water interface structure (www.dataphysics.de/2/start/understanding-interfaces/basics/surfactants-and-critical-micelle-concentration-cmc/) while bubbles are soap-water mixtures with air interface (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soap_film), more like the coffee. @PhysicsGirl is AWESOME.
@destroyercs57205 жыл бұрын
Exactly
@AugustasKunc4 жыл бұрын
what about the fact that they only stay while moving and pop when they stop?
@mahmoudabdalla15519 жыл бұрын
My absolute best regards for filming to Mom.. Great job there.. Salute! :)
@Ka_Gg7 жыл бұрын
Cool video! Studying for my chemistry test and found this. Cool video and sure as hell made this a lot more interesting than my Chemistry teacher.
@MetalRockAndAles9 жыл бұрын
Another great video Physics Girl! I might just have to try a few of these experiments myself sometime! :D Keep up the good work!
@TimFSpears9 жыл бұрын
Very nice. You should try touching the underside of the screen on your inverted jar with the soapy Q-tip. Interested to see how quickly it pours out. Or maybe it doesn't- perhaps the water that beaks out where the surface tension is broken takes the soap away and then it's stable again. Or maybe the vacuum sucks up air where the surface tension is broken and thereby mixes the soap through all the water and it all runs out. I'd love to know which but don't have a bit of screen.
@mrlosishere9 жыл бұрын
Good to see how the channel is growing.
@BriManeely Жыл бұрын
Making a point to watch every Physics Girl video that comes up in my stream. Hoping you get better soon!
@arcsmith41159 жыл бұрын
For 2, the soap decreases the surface tension to allow "thicker" bubbles to form, which can hold more opaque compounds such as lactose or cocoa.
@JohnMichaelStrubhart20229 жыл бұрын
This is a great series of experiments that are more about observation than trying to explain things. Observation is what initially motivates working scientists and the rest is a lot of hard work trying to figure out what's going on that eventually results in an exciting explanation that maybe nobody knew before. But first, you have to hook a potential scientist and this set of activities does the trick. There's evidence to support that in the other comments here. Thanks, Physics Girl! Another awesome job!
@shrabaniganguly49419 жыл бұрын
I am unable to find my brain after i saw your last experiment .....1 . amazing 2. mindblowing 3.fantastic hoping for more new videos from the best youtube channel
@ThomasGiles9 жыл бұрын
Pretty awesome stuff! I'd seen a few before, but others were new to me... Would love a video on what surface tension is, and how those experiments actually work. Also, how soap affects the tension in the water.
@einthoven20439 жыл бұрын
the last experiment was mind bending!!!! thumbs up!
@gracebrewer42819 жыл бұрын
Thanks for posting. :) I needed to find the paperclip experiment and this was the only video I have found!
@nehashah40095 жыл бұрын
Thank you for doing the experiments in such a lovely way
@thisisadiman9 жыл бұрын
The pressure changes caused by the stick causes sudden waves and displaces the molecules in the uppermost layers of the film since they are relatively loosely bound as compared to those in the lower layers.These molecules are consequently replaced by the molecules from lower layer. The molecules form their own spheres due to surface tension which float over the film and move in the direction of net resultant waves.
@saimanogyanat60379 жыл бұрын
Thanks a lot Dianna!! I really appreciate your interest and enthusiasm to teach science in a very interesting way. I just love your videos.. Waiting for more of them.
@dantiede36709 жыл бұрын
+1 for "penny dropper" hahaha. I do have one question; if soap breaks the surface tension, why does the addition of soap *allow* you to make bubbles? It would also be cool to talk about the vapor barrier created on the hot pan and how the air is a less efficient conductor of heat (so it remains in a liquid state). Great video, but more science is always better! :)
@NoahBlacker1019 жыл бұрын
I just have to say, your videos are amazing and i love them. When i saw the email that said you had this video i was so happy, but sad because i couldn't watch it, because i had to take a quantum mechanics quiz (Which also made me happy)! :)
@physicsgirl9 жыл бұрын
Noah Blacker Hope the quiz went well!
@jonathanlister2289 жыл бұрын
your coffee-soap demo is due to you mechanically lifting small amounts of the coffee surface which has the hydrophobic ends of the soap molecules at the coffee to air interface so when a drop falls from the stirrer it is a drop of coffee with a "coating" of the hydrophobic ends around it, when it falls back to the coffee in the cup electrostatic repulsion keeps the drops "floating" on the surface.
@EAS5731829 жыл бұрын
I love this channel. That is all.
@person47264 жыл бұрын
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@noahnguyen75057 жыл бұрын
OMG thank you so much I really needed this video for a science experiment I am analyzing. THANK YOU!!!!!
@ifafv8 жыл бұрын
From 0:43 to 0:48 notice that the larger bubbles absorb the smaller bubbles: the air pressure in the smaller bubble is larger, pushing air from the smaller to the adjacent larger bubble (through the membrane separating them). See Discrepant Balloons by FlinnScientific. The same happens to connected soap bubbles (see my "Unit 5 Fluid Experiments" at 5.40 min) and to the foam bubbles on top of carbonated drinks.
@mosesvelasco58259 жыл бұрын
This channel's growing! So exciting :D
@jimsquirrel8944 Жыл бұрын
So glad I fell into this! Informative and funny! ❤
@Shmolitz9 жыл бұрын
i discovered your chanel with E-penser. You are doing a super job. I'm going to improve my physics and english knowledges with you.
@Kryzmatic19 жыл бұрын
Keep up the good work!!! Love your videos!!!
@zook69699 жыл бұрын
I love all your vdeos, they are . always interesting and fun to try ourselves.
@summerrejmankova14913 жыл бұрын
I love the milk fireworks one! I tried it on my own and it was so cool!
@kc9performance9 жыл бұрын
Nice video! The first one was fascinating!
@NihouNi9 жыл бұрын
Thanks for these. They'll help me plan experiments for home education group next week.
@Wordsnwood9 жыл бұрын
Cool, thanks! The paperclip is awesome. But the screen holding up the water is mindbending.
@physicsgirl9 жыл бұрын
wordsnwood Agreed. It's hard to believe that it actually works until you try it!
@JoelWelter9 жыл бұрын
Your mother is a natural with the camera. The rooster is just trying to hog your screen time. Another great video. BTW, the e-mail updates for your new vid releases work great!
@physicsgirl9 жыл бұрын
Glad to hear that!
@bonniedouglas4002 жыл бұрын
Love these experiments!! We tried the soap in milk effect and my son named them “soap minions”. Thought you might like that!
@Aukele2529 жыл бұрын
The only thing I could possibly imagine happening as far as the "antibubbles" is that when you put soap in the drink you create and incomplete hydrophobic layer across the top. The ball stays on top until it finds a hole in the hydrophobic layer then falls through. It lasts longer when you have a lot of motion because it's harder to find a hole. I could be wrong but that's using my education as far as organic two. And my bio classes thus far. I thought the penny trick was interesting I thought I was the only one that found that cool I did it all the time as a kid. Anyway as a new subscriber great videos!!! It makes me slightly less apprehensive about physics next semester. Thank you so much.
@deanhough52114 жыл бұрын
This Physics Girls is fun and delightful and interesting. More power to you, Physics Girl! :-)
@Yathuprem9 жыл бұрын
Wow you got a new symbol for Physics girl. Anyway when did you going to explain all these phenomenon?? Cant wait for those video. !!!
@TheQuestforHerobrine9 жыл бұрын
Thanks! I love seeing experiments like this!
@janini12323 жыл бұрын
Cool video! I was doing a poster on surface tension and had never seen the water upside down trick done with a screen before. I tried it out and it worked! Really cool. Also tried floating paper clips on water. Then i put a soapy cotton swab in and the paper clip sank, just like it is supposed to. BUT when i tried the water upside down experiment with soapy water or poking a soapy needle into the screen, it still worked. Even with more soap mixed in the water, then turning it upside down, it still worked. Shouldn't the lowered surface tension cause the water to spill? Maybe the air pressure difference still plays the bigger role than the surface tension in this experiment? I could try it again with alcohol mixed in the water, that should also not work.
@SenpaiSan6 жыл бұрын
Nice channel very cool stuffs....I did the same experiments u did and I was really amazed to see all that....thanks a lot
@A-Oreal9 жыл бұрын
Wow! Nice work!
@gopikar623 жыл бұрын
Superb prestantion ❤❤ I loved it
@namansrivastava58635 жыл бұрын
Loved your experiments💥💥👏👏👏
@kalamacademy64136 жыл бұрын
Great stuff on Surface Tension.
@_Cuphead_8 жыл бұрын
you are so amazing I love your videos!
@ChrisPBacon-yc4si9 жыл бұрын
Awesomeness extraordinaire! Love your content...all of it.
@goftawa14458 жыл бұрын
When I was a about 12 I was sitting in a row boat on a slow moving river and my nose started to bleed. I hung my head over the side of the boat and the drops of blood landed on the water and formed small balls on the surface, like those on your coffee, The drops of blood drifted away from the boat and after a while burst, at which time they disolved into the river. It was a fascinating moment.
@snoodthe52499 жыл бұрын
perhaps the motion of the drops plus the internal fluid dynamics keep the drops from breaking the surface tension of the original fluid? maybe the flick of the straw keeps the drop moving on the inside fast enough? awesome videos keep up the great work!
@StefanoOttolenghi9 жыл бұрын
Hi there, thanks for these experiments, I've tried them all and they've all been very interesting in helping understanding how surface tension works. Couple of questions on the milk one though: 1) how many attempts did you do before a perfect one like the one in the video showed up? 2) how deep was your plate? Is it correct my assumption that the more shallow the better? 3) and this is the most important: why milk? My only guess is that food coloring tends not to mix with milk, unless you stir it, and it's quite visible, way more than in water. But apart from these reasons, milk has fats, which I've read somewhere are supposed to lower the surface tension, so the effect should be less visible than in water. Any help? Thanks!
@parv3199 жыл бұрын
soo awesome...m definitely gonna try these experiments in an upcoming science fair. Thank u so much wonder girl!! Oops i mean physics girl :)
@VasilyMusic3 жыл бұрын
Man, if back at school I had a teacher like this, I wouldn't have that much problems with physics lol
@chemxcore9 жыл бұрын
Micelles! Cool video, I always would crack black pepper onto a bowl of water and stick the soap in the middle, all the pepper flies out to the edge of the bowl!
@physicsgirl9 жыл бұрын
That one is fun. It's similar to the milk and food coloring, but with the food coloring you can visualize where the fluid goes
@nickdiamond75959 жыл бұрын
Surface tension also applies to circuit board manufacturing. SMT. Surface mount technology. The solder paste is controlled during reflow (oven) to keep the liquefied short and components in place. I love Physics Girls channel. : )
@nickdiamond75959 жыл бұрын
oopps...typo. liquefied solder.
@joanie19804 жыл бұрын
This is the coolest video ever
@shelbybellamy25314 жыл бұрын
The chicken at the end is so funny!! Also I’m gonna try all of these experiments!! Thanks.
@victorfelix52694 жыл бұрын
I tryed the milk firework and It WORKED!!! So cool
@prathameshgujar32694 жыл бұрын
Can I know the reason for the last experiment's observation?
@lefluffz89389 жыл бұрын
this channel is totally awesome
@vclamp5 жыл бұрын
What a nice video at the end of the day to help me decompress. 😛
@doriannoriega22749 жыл бұрын
Hi. You are such an inspiration
@nicholi89334 жыл бұрын
I tutor ochem and one of the first concepts is surface tension. I like showing videos as examples of chemistry. Thanks
@kimoshow19 жыл бұрын
AMAZZZZZZZING .... we need more of these videos
@Ifuseethisurgay4 жыл бұрын
Wow so cool I am definitely going to check this out
@ToutestScience9 жыл бұрын
Good Job (from France) ! I like this episode :) !
@medicalstudent89475 жыл бұрын
Hey physics girl I think they are antibubble By the way your videos are awesome and much more interesting than others thanks for making such videos
@ifafv8 жыл бұрын
#5 I use a second paper clip (which I bend) to place the floating paper clip onto the surface. That way my hand's natural trembling (amplified by being nervous in front of my students) doesn't affect the positioning as much.
@Lettuce-and-Tomatoes Жыл бұрын
Very cool experiments!
@that_one_momo_guy9 жыл бұрын
Hey! With respect to the coffee experiment. I think the soap is concentrated at the top of the coffee, forming a layer (or part of a layer, depending on how much soap you ingested haha), and in the layer the non-polar ends are pointing up. When you steer it, you curve the layer, and if you steer it faster you may create little drops of coffee. These drops will be surrounded by a layer of soap with the non-polar ends pointing outward. These effectively 'repel' the water outside of the drop and the drop rolls around as if it were a hydrophobic surface. Then I guess instabilities in the shape of the droplet grow, until the area of the drop is more than the area that may be covered by a layer of soap. When a "non-protected" part of the drop touches the rest of the coffee, it's done. Happy physicsing! :)
@MoFixCars9 жыл бұрын
I really like your videos , you present it in a very nice way (Y) Physics Girl
@nambinhvu7 жыл бұрын
#2 is hydrophobic water lol I did that when washing dishes a lot and have a video of it with soapy water in a bowl. I think what's happening is caused by differences in surface tension and also the soap has a polar and non polar side, so when the soapy water molecules attach, the polar end are facing inward making a bubble of water with a lipid layer on the outside, marking it hydrophobic and allowing it to float on the surface tension of the water. When those bubbles hit other non polar facing molecules it tears the barrier away and mixes together. I'm sorry if I'm not using the proper terms, but hopefully it makes sense and is at least somewhat correct. lol
@yli55313 жыл бұрын
You can also create #2 using a water filtering bottle. Mine is the Brita brand, and if you watch water drop from the filter to the surface, small round drops of water will bounce around if the surface of the filtered water is close enough to the filter outlet.
@mr1nyc9 жыл бұрын
Thanks for science infotainment. Keep it up!
@Vivek-cs8jw8 жыл бұрын
More than the experiments, I love the way you say(present) it .Really Cool, mm yeah :)
@ericzander12544 жыл бұрын
Bazinga, ya got me. Love the vid!
@DrQuak9 жыл бұрын
My thoughts, for the spheres ontop of the slightly soapy water, is that the soapy film on the surface of the water, would likely have its hydrophobic end (oily end) pointing away from the water below. When you flick the surface you might be flicking some pure water from below the soapy film which will then sit ontop this hydrophobic (oily) layer. Therefore the tiny droplets of pure water would try and maximise its interaction with itself (i.e. form little balls) rather than spread out over the hydrophobic (oily) layer. Eventually the droplet would What I'm not sure of is why stirring the water would make these little droplets last longer (and one would imagine that stirring would break the hydrophobic layer and intermix the soap film with the water below). One other possibility, considering that both of the examples you showed contained milk (the coffee seemed to have milk in it!), that it instead might have something to do with the folding of the milk proteins (which presumably may have different folding in a hydrophobic and hydrophillic environments). I tried to reproduce the experiment using water + detergent (specifically Fairy liquid and a hand soap) and milk + detergent. In the water I wasn't able to get anything like spheres that you observed, in the milk + detergent I believe I was (though it was hard to tell due to the lack of contrast). There could also be a temperature dependence and liquid : detergent relative composition dependence. So, I guess my question would be: Do you see it in coffee without milk? Do you see it in water without any coffee or anything like that? (if yes then it is nothing to do with the proteins in the milk). As you heat the liquid + detergent does it become easier or harder to make these spheres (higher temperatures lead to lower surface tensions, and should also increase the dissolving of the soap into the water / milk), similarly can the same thing be achieved with an oil (e.g. cooking oil) - soap will lower the surface tension of the water, oil shouldn't affect the surface tension as they do not intermix (to test whether it is the hydrophobic layer or the effect on surface tension that is causing this). Perhaps going even further and looking at acetone mixed with hexane (very polar and very non-polar solvents) or even better dimethyl sulfoxide and hexane (massive difference in density) to see if you can get the same effect.
@benfubbs24329 жыл бұрын
David Duncan This effect has been observed in fluids other than those containing milk. Indeed even in distilled water: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3208511/ As previously linked by Saṃdīp Īśa.
@Styleth9 жыл бұрын
I love your videos. Thanks for sharing them :)
@physicsgirl9 жыл бұрын
Swiftynine you're welcome!
@DarthMaskar9 жыл бұрын
The little spheres are little droplets of liquid sitting on top of the large liquid. it takes them a while to sink in due to the surface tension. you can see this as well with rain drops. they actually bounce on the surface of water several times before they actually form with it
@DarthMaskar9 жыл бұрын
DarthMaskar the soap makes the droplets take longer to sink in as well
@CarlSaganify9 жыл бұрын
This is a really cool video but I wish you would of went into a little bit of explaination as to what is happening with the surface tension to cause these cool tricks. Still a great video, keep it up!
@navneetkumar010119876 жыл бұрын
Spheres in the coffee cup (+ little bit of soap) experiment is in fact anti-bubble. These anti-bubbles jump and move on the parent surface. Researchers are trying to understand the behaviour of wave and particle motion by oscillating the parent liquid. There is a nice video on this though I don't remember the link. I forgot to thank you for nice demos. Cheers.
@MrVanquishDestiny9 жыл бұрын
Your smile is amazing! But I also love your love of science :D