Re: Two balloons

[Dwight Souder <crvhs_dks@NCOCC.OHIO.GOV>]

    You may want to check with some tapes of Julius Sumner Miller.  I remember
seeing him do this demo, but I can't remember if he explained why or just showed
the concept of things being directly and inversely proportional to oneanother.

Dwight


Jim Ealy wrote:

> List members:
> Several years ago I was "caught" by the counter-intuitive example of two
> identical balloon.  They are connected by a glass tube with a closed stop cock.
>  One balloon is very inflated and the other is barely inflated.  The question
> was, "what happens when the stop cock is opened?"   The conventional wisdom was
> that the barely inflated balloon had a higher pressure (due to its unstretched
> condition -thicker wall, etc) and the gases flowed from the smaller balloon to
> the larger.  The same with soap bubbles.  Can any one give me a reference with
> the title and author of the textbooks where this counter-intuitive example
> exists.  Reply off line unless you feel it is of general interest?
>
> jim ealy
> jim_ealy@RCDS.RYE.NY.US