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- From: ttyytt@mixcom.com (Adam Costello)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: Air bubbles in a universe of water
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.001043.10436@mixcom.com>
- Date: 21 Jul 92 00:10:43 GMT
- Article-I.D.: mixcom.1992Jul21.001043.10436
- References: <l6e0bdINNi94@news.bbn.com> <1992Jul18.061809.22191@mixcom.com> <l6h6h3INNo37@news.bbn.com>
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- In article <l6h6h3INNo37@news.bbn.com> saustin@bbn.com (Steve Austin) writes:
- >ttyytt@mixcom.com (Adam Costello) writes:
- >
- >->Here's another. A man sitting in a boat on the lake pulls a plug
- >->in the bottom of the boat. The boat begins to sink slowly, and eventually
- >->comes to rest on the bottom of the lake, completely submerged. Describe
- >->(qualitatively) the level of the lake as a function of the position of the
- >->boat.
- >
- >Okey doke. These things are real easy to do if you imagine special
- >cases of boat and then rationalize that the shape of the boat does
- >not matter to the problem.
- >
- >Imagine the lake was a cylinder filled with water and that the boat was
- >cylinder with only slightly smaller diameter. The boat it made with
- >a thin foil that has non-negligible weight. When the boat is placed
- >into the lake, the water will shoot up the sides of the cylinder lake.
- >When the boat is submerged the water level will be only slightly higher
- >than it orininally was.
- >
- >When the boat is sinking, the water level will drop until the boat is
- >submerged, Thereafter there will be no change in the water level.
-
- Almost. The water level will not change while the boat is sinking, until
- the water starts pouring into the boat over the side (as opposed to
- coming in through the hole in the bottom). Then the water level will go
- down at the same rate as the boat, until the boat is full of water.
-
- AMC
-