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I once kept my Jr. High Earth Science class late because the teacher made a mistake in explaining parallax of stars. He said that a star that's 2 parsecs away has a parallax of 2 seconds, but the parallax actually decreases as the distance increases. I drew a simple diagram on the blackboard, yet he still didn't get it, and I had to go over it several times in different ways.
Which cup will be filled first?
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Posted 2018-April-11, 09:44
barmar, on 2018-April-11, 09:18, said:
I once kept my Jr. High Earth Science class late because the teacher made a mistake in explaining parallax of stars. He said that a star that's 2 parsecs away has a parallax of 2 seconds, but the parallax actually decreases as the distance increases. I drew a simple diagram on the blackboard, yet he still didn't get it, and I had to go over it several times in different ways.
I once kept my Jr. High Earth Science teacher late because he was in charge of detentions. Does that count?
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Posted 2018-April-11, 17:05
Winstonm, on 2018-April-11, 09:44, said:
I once kept my Jr. High Earth Science teacher late because he was in charge of detentions. Does that count?
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Posted 2018-April-13, 01:46
broze, on 2018-April-07, 17:24, said:
Abstain. The right answer is surely "it depends". Either 1 or 3 depending on the speed of the flow of the water.
At high flow rate definitely cup 1- outflow will be less than inflow.
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Posted 2018-April-13, 04:16
cloa513, on 2018-April-13, 01:46, said:
At high flow rate definitely cup 1- outflow will be less than inflow.
When is the last time you saw a high flow rate water/liquid coming down in drops as it is in the picture?
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Posted 2018-April-13, 14:30
MrAce, on 2018-April-13, 04:16, said:
When is the last time you saw a high flow rate water/liquid coming down in drops as it is in the picture?
When is the last time you saw droplets half the width of glasses? Assuming that the drops are water then the glasses are extremely small and so I think it's perfectly possible for glass 1 to fill up first if the drops are coming quickly.
I think it's fair to say we have done the 'problem' to death now lol.
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Posted 2018-April-13, 17:22
broze, on 2018-April-13, 14:30, said:
I think it's fair to say we have done the 'problem' to death now lol.
Right
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"It's only when a mosquito lands on your testicles that you realize there is always a way to solve problems without using violence!"
"Well to be perfectly honest, in my humble opinion, of course without offending anyone who thinks differently from my point of view, but also by looking into this matter in a different perspective and without being condemning of one's view's and by trying to make it objectified, and by considering each and every one's valid opinion, I honestly believe that I completely forgot what I was going to say."
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Posted 2018-April-14, 06:48
Except no one so far has pointed out that cups don't look like beer glasses!
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Posted 2018-April-14, 08:54
And who designed these stupid cups with pipes coming out of their sides and why put a pipe there if you are going to seal it off? And what is holding the whole apparatus up? The whole thing appears to be just hanging in mid-air. I am preparing a paper on this where I will generalize to n cups instead of 7. And who is going to clean up the mess after the cups overflow? Who? Who? Don't look at me.
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Posted 2018-April-14, 09:56
kenberg, on 2018-April-14, 08:54, said:
And who designed these stupid cups with pipes coming out of their sides and why put a pipe there if you are going to seal it off? And what is holding the whole apparatus up? The whole thing appears to be just hanging in mid-air. I am preparing a paper on this where I will generalize to n cups instead of 7. And who is going to clean up the mess after the cups overflow? Who? Who? Don't look at me.
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Posted 2018-April-15, 10:41
kenberg, on 2018-April-14, 08:54, said:
And who designed these stupid cups with pipes coming out of their sides and why put a pipe there if you are going to seal it off? And what is holding the whole apparatus up? The whole thing appears to be just hanging in mid-air. I am preparing a paper on this where I will generalize to n cups instead of 7. And who is going to clean up the mess after the cups overflow? Who? Who? Don't look at me.
Reminds me of the sitcom trope where a tutor is giving the pupil a typical math problem, like "Two trains are traveling at N miles an hour...", and the student starts asking "irrelevant" questions about the trains, passengers, cities, etc.