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Do I need to have an airtight container to siphon boiling water?
I'm attempting to siphon boiling water into another container for a school project. I have researched the physics of a siphon but I can't seem to make my boiling water siphon out of its initial pot.
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How much pressure is needed to break an egg if applied from top and bottom?
Everybody knows that you can't break an egg with our fingers when pushing from top and bottom.
I assume if we could squeeze hard enough the egg would break?
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If 1 screw can support 120 lbs, how much weight can 25 screws support?
While this is mainly about my personal home improvement project, I figure this would be a good opportunity for some of you to apply your physics skills to a real-world situation.
My situation is ...
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What could I test for in a guillotine? [closed]
I'm doing a school assignment project and I need to investigate something of my choice. I was thinking of doing something about how the height and angle the blade of a guillotine is dropped from ...
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Simple home pressure experiment: how to understand the dependence on the glass opening?
Suppose you put a drinking glass under water such that it is completely filled with water. Then hold it upside down and slowly raise the drinking glass out of the water. The water in the drinking ...
