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- From: cbettis@unlinfo.unl.edu (clifford bettis)
- Newsgroups: sci.skeptic
- Subject: Re: sci.skeptic: The Frequently Questioned Answers
- Date: 20 Nov 1992 15:23:20 GMT
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- tjfs@tadtec.uucp (Tim Steele) writes:
-
- >It's remarkable how easy it is to construct problems from everyday
- >things which are surprising in their behaviour. Two examples (for
- >which I am indebted to a friend and a book by Martin Gardner):
-
- >a) A bottle of milk containing normal milk (cream on top) is shaken up
- >and then left to settle. Does the pressure at the bottom of the
- >bottle increase, decrease or stay the same?
-
-
- >Tim
-
- >a) The milk loses potential energy as the denser water falls to the
- >bottom and the less dense cream rises to the top. This causes the
- >pressure at the bottom of the bottle to increase slightly.
-
- I don't understand your answer. Suppose the bottle of milk has
- verticle sides and we don't need to worry about the weight of the
- material the bottle is made of. Then the weight of the bottle of milk
- will be equal to the pressure at the bottom of the bottle of milk
- times the area of the bottom. Why should the weight of the bottle of
- milk change as the cream separates out?
- Cliff
-