A spherical soap bubble inside an air chamber at pressure has a certain radius so that the excess pressure inside the bubble is . Now, the chamber pressure is reduced to so that the bubble radius and its excess pressure change. In this process, all the temperatures remain unchanged. Assume air to be an ideal gas and the excess pressure in both the cases to be much smaller than the chamber pressure. The new excess pressure in Pa is _____.
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For a soap bubble (two surfaces), .
Since , the air inside is at about the chamber pressure. The trapped air expands isothermally:
So the excess pressure falls by the same factor: