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#1 2002-12-27 5:54 am
Can someone answer this math problem?
Suppose a drop of a water is 100 ml. Now, on a table there is a glass that measures 10 cm in height and 5 cm in diameter.
How many drops of water can go in the empty glass?
BONUS: How many mls are that?
* ml = mililiters
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#2 2002-12-27 9:05 am
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Those are some awfully big drops. It only takes 1.96 drops to fill up the whole glass.
Volume of a cylinder (VoC): pi * r^2 * h
Volume of this glass (VoG): 196.3495 cm^3
1 ml = 1 cm^3
1 drop (Damt) = 100 ml
Drops in Glass = (VoG) / (Damt) = 196.3495cm^3 / 100ml = 1.96 drops.
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#3 2002-12-27 9:06 am
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Bonus: 196 ml.
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#4 2002-12-27 9:15 am
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Nice,
Thought it was a meant as joke.
Oh well, guess Belgian jokes don't work when translated.
PS: the joke: how many drops in an empty glass, NONE otherwise it wouldn't be an empty glass.
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#5 2002-12-27 11:40 am
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Yup Taxxodium, you definitely failed 
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#6 2002-12-27 1:11 pm
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MacMan, did you get beat up a lot as a kid? 
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#7 2002-12-27 1:26 pm
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Hehe...sorry Taxx, but the answer's wrong again. You can put one drop in the empty glass.
And for the record, water's surface tension could not support a drop that big. It would burst long before it got to the 100 mL point.
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#8 2002-12-27 2:18 pm
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And for the record, water's surface tension could not support a drop that big. It would burst long before it got to the 100 mL point.
Not if you had an... um... anti-surfactant.
you mean like soap ??
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#9 2002-12-27 3:06 pm
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wouldn't an anti surfectant LOWER the surface tension thus making such a drop even MORE impossible? - how about in null gravity though - without the weight of the water pulling it apart - could the surface tension hold a 'drop' that volume together?
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#11 2002-12-27 5:10 pm
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Sure, you could get a drop that big in zero-g. I'd like to see you make it all go in the glass though. 
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#12 2002-12-28 3:27 pm
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/me would just like to point out the uselessness of this conversation.
Okay, as you were .
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#13 2002-12-29 12:27 am
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#14 2002-12-29 2:26 pm
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What Pave Said ^^
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