{"id":3575,"date":"2015-06-16T14:01:42","date_gmt":"2015-06-16T14:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swatlibraries.org\/projects\/speed\/anna\/2015\/06\/16\/kubic-bubbles\/"},"modified":"2024-01-19T19:10:58","modified_gmt":"2024-01-19T19:10:58","slug":"kubic-bubbles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/2015\/06\/kubic-bubbles\/","title":{"rendered":"Kubic Bubbles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/06\/Kubic-Bubbles.jpg\" alt=\"Kubic Bubbles Demo Picture\" width=\"422\" height=\"316\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Build cubes, octahedrons, tetrahedrons and triangular prisms &#8211; then<br \/>\ndip them in soapy glycerin mixture to produce surfaces of minimum energy. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Study surface tension and demonstrate light refraction.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Soap film surface contained by three dimensional framework will<br \/>\nautomatically arrange itself to have\u00a0the smallest possible surface<br \/>\narea.\u00a0Soap films can be used to give visual answers to\u00a0complex mathematical problems.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Located in L02, section D1. Soap solution located in L01,<br \/>\nsection B5.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Build cubes, octahedrons, tetrahedrons and triangular prisms &#8211; then dip them in soapy glycerin mixture to produce surfaces of minimum energy. Study surface tension and demonstrate light refraction. Soap film surface contained by three dimensional framework will automatically arrange itself to have\u00a0the smallest possible surface area.\u00a0Soap films can be used to give visual answers &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/2015\/06\/kubic-bubbles\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kubic Bubbles<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4716,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,6],"tags":[123,302,416,443,486,493],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3575"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3575"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5181,"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3575\/revisions\/5181"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}