Thermodynamics, Statistical Physics, and Quantum Mechanics

THERMODYNAMICS AND STATISTICAL PHYSICS

is associated with the surface tension:

The Gibbs free energy

The entropy change

where is the potential of the system with one bubble and is the

potential of the initial configuration. We then find

where we used the fact that the number of particles did not change and q
is the heat necessary to produce a unit area of the film:

So

We can eliminate from the final result by using the following equations:

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