A three-dimensional photographic study of the nonrectilinear ascent of an air bubble in water is presented. A geometric model is developed which describes the trajectory in terms of a transformed coordinate system. The parameters of the model which describe the departure from linearity are found to be dependent on the equivalent spherical radius of the bubble.
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