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Title: Soap-Bubbles
and the Forces Which Mould Them

Author: C. V. Boys

Release Date: August 7, 2010 [EBook #33370]

Language: English

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SOAP-BUBBLES

AND THE

FORCES WHICH MOULD THEM.

[Illustration: Experiment for showing by intermittent light the
apparently stationary drops into which a fountain is broken up by the
action of a musical sound. (_See_ page 109.)]

SOAP-BUBBLES

AND THE

FORCES WHICH MOULD THEM.

_BEING A COURSE OF THREE LECTURES_

DELIVERED IN THE THEATRE OF THE LONDON
INSTITUTION ON THE AFTERNOONS OF DEC. 30, 1889,
JAN. 1 AND 3, 1890, BEFORE A JUVENILE AUDIENCE.

BY

C. V. BOYS, A.R.S.M., F.R.S.,

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF PHYSICS AT THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE, SOUTH
KENSINGTON.

PUBLISHED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE GENERAL LITERATURE COMMITTEE.

SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE,
LONDON: NORTHUMBERLAND AVENUE, W.C.;
43, QUEEN VICTORIA STREET, E.C.
BRIGHTON: 129, NORTH STREET.
New York: E. & J. B. YOUNG & CO.
1896.

TO

G. F. RODWELL,

THE FIRST

SCIENCE-MASTER APPOINTED AT MARLBOROUGH COLLEGE,

_This Book is Dedicated_

BY THE AUTHOR

AS A TOKEN OF ESTEEM AND GRATITUDE,

AND IN THE HOPE THAT

IT MAY EXCITE IN A FEW YOUNG PEOPLE SOME SMALL

FRACTION OF THE INTEREST AND ENTHUSIASM WHICH

HIS ADVENT AND HIS LECTURES AWAKENED

IN THE AUTHOR, UPON WHOM THE LIGHT

OF SCIENCE THEN SHONE FOR

THE FIRST TIME.

PREFACE.

I would ask those readers who have grown up, and who may be disposed to
find fault with this book, on the ground that in so many points it is
incomplete, or that much is so elementary or well known, to remember
that the lectures were meant for juveniles, and for juveniles only.
These latter I would urge to do their best to repeat the experiments
described. They will find that in many cases n