#sometimes it's helpful to have good mechanical intuition + an openness to interrogating and disproving that intuition + A Knife | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

anonymusbosch · 1 month ago

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you COULD make your case about how the fluid in this system is behaving by using "math" and "physics", thereby leaving your assumptions about boundary conditions and system state and approximations open to challenge, or! ☝️ you could stab a disposable plastic water bottle with a knife and illustrate your point in 10 seconds

#sometimes it's helpful to have good mechanical intuition + an openness to interrogating and disproving that intuition + A Knife #approaching the matter from 'i am confident in my fluid dynamics and system understanding and here's what i think'#sometimes does not work as well in convincing others as 'i don't know much about fluid dynamics but if i think about this simple case -'#'it seems like xyz'#then illustrate simple case. by stabbing.#also! to the friends with whom i was discussing something and convinced I was misunderstanding hydraulics gravely bc it didn't make sense -#it turns out i do maybe understand hydraulics at least a little. yay

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