The intensity and polarization characteristics of scattered light beams are studied for bubbles in water and compared to the case of water droplets in air. The size distributions of the scatters in both systems are assumed to be the same. It is shown that spherical polydispersions of water droplets give generally larger depolarization effects than bubbles, leading to larger entropy production by droplets than bubbles. (C) 2004 American Association of Physics Teachers. [References: 11]
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