Crackhappy@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish · 16 days agoIf you take a water balloon filled normally at the surface of the ocean and take it down, like 100 meters would it deflate due to the higher water pressure? What if you popped it?message-squaremessage-square15linkfedilinkarrow-up153
arrow-up153message-squareIf you take a water balloon filled normally at the surface of the ocean and take it down, like 100 meters would it deflate due to the higher water pressure? What if you popped it?Crackhappy@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish · 16 days agomessage-square15linkfedilink
minus-squarenooneescapesthelaw@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up40·edit-216 days agoLet’s first state our assumptions: Very thin membrane, the balloon skin cannot be compressed more than it already is Zero trapped air Isothermal conditions, water temperature at the bottom of the ocean is the same as the top, that way we don’t need to deal with thermal expansion Balloon is a perfect sphere Calculations: Pressure on the balloon is densitygravitydepth ~= 1000 x 10 x 100 = 1 Mpa or 10 atmospheres The bulk modulus of water is 2.2 Gpa so (change in volume)/(initial volume) = (change in pressure)/(bulk modulus) = 0.0046% decrease in volume 0.0046% decrease in volume is like a 0.015% decrease in radius So yes the balloon does get a little bit smaller
Let’s first state our assumptions:
Very thin membrane, the balloon skin cannot be compressed more than it already is
Zero trapped air
Isothermal conditions, water temperature at the bottom of the ocean is the same as the top, that way we don’t need to deal with thermal expansion
Balloon is a perfect sphere
Calculations:
Pressure on the balloon is densitygravitydepth ~= 1000 x 10 x 100 = 1 Mpa or 10 atmospheres
The bulk modulus of water is 2.2 Gpa so (change in volume)/(initial volume) = (change in pressure)/(bulk modulus) = 0.0046% decrease in volume
0.0046% decrease in volume is like a 0.015% decrease in radius
So yes the balloon does get a little bit smaller
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