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Ninety microseconds, and most of it spent barely moving

Ninety microseconds, and most of it spent barely moving
Ninety microseconds, and most of it spent barely moving. The radius of a collapsing cavity against time, both as fractions of their own totals. The bubble spends most of the collapse near its original size and the last few per cent of the radius in the last fraction of a per cent of the time. The total is 91.47 microseconds for a millimetre cavity at one bar, computed by quadrature and agreeing with the closed form in gamma functions to a part in 10⁹.

The radius of a collapsing cavity against time, both as fractions of their own totals. The bubble spends most of the collapse near its original size and the last few per cent of the radius in the last fraction of a per cent of the time. The total is 91.47 microseconds for a millimetre cavity at one bar, computed by quadrature and agreeing with the closed form in gamma functions to a part in 10⁹.

2 essays call bubble-collapse. The drawing above is what it returns with no arguments at all; every call below passes it something, because a placement that passes nothing draws whichever member of the family the generator happens to default to rather than the one its essay argues about.

It is also the blast radius. Changing bubble-collapse changes every figure listed here at once, and on this site it may change what they assert as well as what they show — which is what has to be rebuilt and looked at before the change is believed.

Where it is called

What each of these essays asks for instead of the defaults is on the regime index, which reads the parameters back out of the finished figures rather than out of the placements.

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