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- From: mab@wdl39.wdl.loral.com (Mark A Biggar)
- Subject: Re: Christmas problem
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.184143.2250@wdl.loral.com>
- Sender: news@wdl.loral.com
- Organization: Loral Western Development Labs
- References: <8456@charon.cwi.nl>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 18:41:43 GMT
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- In article <8456@charon.cwi.nl> vanloon@cwi.nl (Maarten van Loon) writes:
- >1. A glass of water is standing on a balance.
- > At a certain moment someone puts a thermometer in the glass,
- > without touching the glass and still holding the thermometer
- > in his (or her) hand. Question: does the balance show a
- > heigher or lower weight or does it indicate the same weight?
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- Water sticks to glass, so some small amount of water in now supported by
- the thermometer, so the balance should read a lower weight.
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- >2. An astronout takes a bottle filled half with whine with him
- > in space. What does he see when he looks to the bottle in
- > space?
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- Whine? (what is a jewish American Princess's favorite whine: "I want to go
- to Bermuda for X-mas!" Oh wine!) Well depending on how shaken up the bottle
- got anything from a bottle full of pink foam to a bottle that looks full
- because the wine sticks to glass and will cover the entire inside surface.
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- Mark Biggar
- mab@wdl1.wdl.loral.com
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