Extended: Beaker Ball Balance Problem
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This is the final installment of the beaker ball balance problem. So if you haven’tseen the first part, you should probably watch that now. The link is in the description.Now assuming you have seen it, you know that the balance tips towards the hanging acrylicball when weighed against a beaker with a submerged ping pong ball. But what would happenif, instead of tethering the ping pong ball to the base of the beaker, it was insteadsubmerged by my finger. I posed this question in the last video and you responded with thousandsof comments. Thirteen percent of you thought that the acrylic ball beaker would be heavier.Twenty-nine percent thought the ping pong ball beaker would be heavier. And 54 percentof you thought that they would be balanced. So now let’s see what act...
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This is the final installment of the beaker ball balance problem. So if you haven’tseen the first part, you should probably watch that now. The link is in the description.Now assuming you have seen it, you know that the balance tips towards the hanging acrylicball when weighed against a beaker with a submerged ping pong ball. But what would happenif, instead of tethering the ping pong ball to the base of the beaker, it was insteadsubmerged by my finger. I posed this question in the last video and you responded with thousandsof comments. Thirteen percent of you thought that the acrylic ball beaker would be heavier.Twenty-nine percent thought the ping pong ball beaker would be heavier. And 54 percentof you thought that they would be balanced. So now let’s see what act...
