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A simple way to visualize how hydrostatic pressure increases with depth

February 25, 2023

I did this demo for my freediving club Active Divers (and if you aren’t following us on Insta yet, that’s what I am taking all these pretty pictures for!): 1.5l PET…

Mariotte’s bottle: A nifty trick to control “reservoir height” in #dropphotography

September 9, 2019

In earlier posts on drop photography, you might have noticed that the reservoirs for the water that drops out and creates the beautiful liquid art has a weird cork on…

Pythagoras’ Cup

February 28, 2017

Yep, I’ve been playing this weekend :-) After seeing this on Facebook a while back I just couldn’t resist… Enjoy! :-)

Taking the hydrostatic paradox to the next (water) level

April 14, 2016

How well do people understand hydrostatics? I am preparing a workshop for tomorrow night and I am getting very bored by the questions that I have been using to introduce…

Water seeks its level. U-tube experiment. By Mirjam S. Glessmer

When water doesn’t seek its level

January 12, 2016

Last 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…

Water seeks its level

January 7, 2016

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…

Non-leaking bottle.

February 7, 2014

Still more on hydrostatic pressure. Just because it is cool :-)

Letter tubes and hydrostatic pressure

February 5, 2014

How less than 25% of the tested students give consistent answers to these problems. This is already the third blog post talking about the paper “Identifying and addressing student difficulties…

Barometer problem.

January 31, 2014

Still talking about hydrostatic pressure. Yes, I am not done with hydrostatic pressure yet! One of the problems students were given in the study “Identifying and addressing student difficulties with…

What are students not understanding about hydrostatic pressure? Tomorrow (today by the time this post will go online, I guess) I will present the paper “Identifying and addressing student difficulties…

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A simple way to visualize how hydrostatic pressure increases with depth

Mariotte’s bottle: A nifty trick to control “reservoir height” in #dropphotography

Pythagoras’ Cup

Taking the hydrostatic paradox to the next (water) level

When water doesn’t seek its level

Water seeks its level

Non-leaking bottle.

Letter tubes and hydrostatic pressure

Barometer problem.

Hydrostatic pressure

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