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Description: 2003
A coke bottle filled with water then frozen.
Motivation:
I've always wanted to do this!!!
Analysis:
We all know that glaciers are rivers of ice, this is because ice under pressure
acts like a liquid. The coke bottle is designed to hold pressure so when
the water froze and tried to expand, the liquid ice oozed out the top of the
bottle like playdough pushed through a spaghetti machine. Of course once
outside the bottle (there was much lower pressure) it solidified to the shape of
the nozzle, a cylinder.
It is worth noting that the bottle cracked before all the water inside froze.
This is because the outside edges froze before the center. This centimeter
thick layer of forming ice had the structural strength of an arch with outward
force. An oversimplified horizontal
slice is shown, the black arrows show ice expanding, the red arrows are the
resulting force outward. They are not proper vectors, I'd need a limit to
do that anyway (its out of the scope of this site. Ask me and I'll
explain.) |