{"id":709,"date":"2014-10-30T10:25:57","date_gmt":"2014-10-30T10:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/structures\/?p=709"},"modified":"2014-11-17T13:01:46","modified_gmt":"2014-11-17T13:01:46","slug":"a-quick-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/structures\/2014\/10\/30\/a-quick-question\/","title":{"rendered":"A quick question to make you think"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You are sitting in a rowing boat in a small pond, you have an unopened \u00a0can of baked beans with you. If you throw the \u00a0can (which sinks) \u00a0into the pond what happens to the level of the water in the pond<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/structures\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/51\/2014\/10\/boat-image.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-712\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/structures\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/51\/2014\/10\/boat-image.jpg\" alt=\"www.amsterdamology.com\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>www.amsterdamology.com<\/p>\n<p>This question was \u00a0plagiarized from Prof Peter Goodhew, thanks Mark<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>SOLUTION: \u00a0The \u00a0water level goes down! \u00a0In the boat the mass of the can displaces its own \u00a0mass of \u00a0water (which is a lot of \u00a0water as the beans are \u00a0dense) when the \u00a0can of beans \u00a0sinks to the \u00a0bottom of the pond they \u00a0only \u00a0displace \u00a0their own \u00a0volume which is \u00a0 small ( as they \u00a0are \u00a0dense) hence the water \u00a0level goes \u00a0down! Don't worry \u00a0a \u00a0beautiful illustration of the solution is coming \u00a0soon.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You are sitting in a rowing boat in a small pond, you have an unopened \u00a0can of baked beans with you. If you throw the \u00a0can (which sinks) \u00a0into the pond what happens to the level of the water in...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/structures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/structures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/structures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/structures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/structures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/structures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/structures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/structures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/structures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}