Torricelli's playground: draining inclined cylinders and other variations on the theme
Poster Number
23
Format
Poster Presentation
Faculty Mentor Name
Aleksei Beltukov
Abstract/Artist Statement
Torricelli's Law is used in ODE courses to illustrate separable equations. Using the law, one finds the time it takes to drain a container of liquid through a pinhole. A typical textbook exercise is to compute the draining time of a tank in the shape of a cylinder or a sphere. We decided to explore Torricel!i's Law in more depth and stumbled across interesting variations:
Location
Wendell Phillips Center, 1st floor hallways
Start Date
3-5-2008 1:00 PM
End Date
3-5-2008 3:00 PM
Torricelli's playground: draining inclined cylinders and other variations on the theme
Wendell Phillips Center, 1st floor hallways
Torricelli's Law is used in ODE courses to illustrate separable equations. Using the law, one finds the time it takes to drain a container of liquid through a pinhole. A typical textbook exercise is to compute the draining time of a tank in the shape of a cylinder or a sphere. We decided to explore Torricel!i's Law in more depth and stumbled across interesting variations: