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Transcribed Image Text:The figure illustrates a soap film (shown in gray) supported by a wire frame.
Because of surface tension the film exerts a force 20l on the cross wire. This
force is in such a direction that it tends to move this wire so as to dscrease
the area of the film. The quantity o is called the "surface tension" of the film
a.nd the factor 2 occurs because the film has two surfaces. The temperature
dependence of a is given by
where o and a are constanta independent of T or z.
(a) Suppose that the distance z (or equivalently, the total film area 2lx) is
the only external parameter of significance in the problem. Write a rolation
expressing the change dE in mean energy of the film in terms of the heat đą
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absorbed by it and the work done by it in an infinitesimal quasi-static process in
which the dietance z is changed by an amount dz.
(6) Calculate the change im mean energy AE E(x) – E(0) of the film
when it is stretched at a constant temperature To from a length z = 0 to a
length z.
(c) Calculate the work W(0 - x) done on the film in order to stretch it at
this constant temperature from a length x =
O to a length r.
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