Comments on: Water seeks its level.

By: Water seeks its level |

Water seeks its level | — Thu, 14 Apr 2016 16:07:31 +0000

[…] There are a lot of misconceptions related to hydrostatic pressure. One of them is that if you took a jug like the one below (or a U-tube, as in my post on letter tubes and misconceptions around hydrostatic pressure) the water level would have to be higher in the narrow snout of the jug than in the main body. So when I saw a cheap-ish fat separator jug recently, I had to get it “for my blog” (ok, because I wanted to play with it) to show that water, indeed, seeks its level. […]

By: When water doesn’t seek its level |

When water doesn’t seek its level | — Tue, 12 Jan 2016 06:37:34 +0000

[…] week we talked about misconceptions related to hydrostatic pressure, and how water always seeks its level. Today I’m gonna show you circumstances in which this is actually not the […]

By: Capillary effects |

Capillary effects | — Wed, 11 Nov 2015 09:38:19 +0000

[…] above the water levels in the glass. And of course – even though we always talk about water seeking its level and hydrostatics and stuff – we know that that’s how it should be because of the […]

By: Creating a continuous stratification in a tank, using the double bucket filling method |

Wed, 11 Nov 2015 07:24:44 +0000

[…] For more practical tips for tank experiments, check out the post “water seeks its level” in which I describe how to keep the water level in a tank constant despite having an inflow […]