Re: [Phys-l] one of my students emailed this to me this morning. anyone have any good answers?

["Dr. Keith S. Taber" <kst24@cam.ac.uk>]

I hope you will offer some advice first on research ethics for 
studies with human subjects. (Consideration of apostrophes or how 
bubbles can be blown IN a face might come after the physics.)

Best wishes


Keith


At 20:45 -0500 27/11/11, Michael Barr wrote:
> Hey all,
> One of my HS students emailed this question to me this morning.  We are
> studying collisions in class now so I guess this is what sparked his
> curiosity.  Does anyone have a somewhat simple explanation I can give him?
>
>
> "i was hoping you could help me out with something that i was curious
> about. i was blowing bubbles in my cousins face while she slept and i
> began to watch the bubbles. i noticed that they do one of four things
> when they collide. they bump and move away, they bump and pop, they
> fuse together into one super bubble or they half-fuse into this weird
> siamese bubble. what is it that allows them to behave this way?"
>
> Thanks,
> Michael Barr
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