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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…

Thank you, Archimedes!

May 13, 2015

I really like hydrostatics. Of course I like moving water even better, but even static water is great. And there are so many things to explore! If I was to…

When diet coke cans don’t float better than regular coke cans

April 17, 2015

This is why you should always test an experiment before you run it… On recent travels, when I saw that they were serving drinks out of tiny cans, I asked…

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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

Thank you, Archimedes!

When diet coke cans don’t float better than regular coke cans

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