Ha. Trick question! All of them are already full of air, and niether the flow rate nor the direction (or lack) of gravity was specified anyway. You lose. :)
5 will be the only one that will ever fill up unless you really crank up the pressure in which case 7 will also fill but very slowly. 5 and 7 are open containers and there’s a hole in the bottom of 4. But if it’s water coming out of a tap then only 5 will fill .
1 can also fill up if the flow from the faucet is higher than what can exit through the pipe connecting to 2.
There it is!!! That connector is too narrow, only way it isnt 1 is if the pressure is criminally low.
The connection between 2 and 3 is blocked.
Even if you assume that it is not blocked, it is still 5. The pipe from 2 to 3 is never reached because 4 leaks out the hole in the bottom. Assume that the hole in the bottom is a flaw and 4 still leaks out the top before the pipe to 3 is reached.
Damn, I didn’t even notice that.
Depends on how much you turn on the tap. If you fürn it up completely its 1,else its 5.
Depends on diameter of the pipes leading out too. They look small in the image, but if they’re big enough to handle the max flow out of the faucet, 5 will still fill up first.
5, but it also depends on the circumstances. What liquid is used, temperature, viscosity, etc. There’s some material science stuff that’s far beyond the intended scope of this question.
Why 5?
1 fills up halfway, which then overflows in 2. The bottom of 2 has a pipe running out of it, which is directed into 5
I depends on the inflow vs outflow of 1 - it might fill up first. But otherwise, yeah, i would say 5 as well.
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I got it! First, the free floating faucet will drop into bucket one. The impact will certainly break its connecting tube and broken 1 + faucet collapse into 4. Therefore 4 will be broken but full of shards.
If you’re lucky, one of the shards will block the hole at the bottom of 4
If you’re lucky, there is a bottom below the hole that everything is standing on. Otherwise everything is loss in a void.
It’s a sad day. They all stay empty. Such a loss.
I came in to comment, “it probably would probably be 5, but I think it would depend on the flow rate?”
But reading the other comments, it looks like I’m OOTL on something? 🧐
im at a loss too
if you really want to know... don't do it
There might be something further upstream. All the way upstream.
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point zero, in fact
Wouldn’t scale and viscosity play a role? Seriously, imagine a river vs a capillary tube. Also how many dimensions? And forces involved? Is that a blockage between 2 and 3? Are the walls breakable? How will the fluid hold air? Are the lines into structure 5 lower than the walls? Is this in a vacuum?
you may be overthinking it
There is no mention of any fluid involved, just a faucet. So lets think inside of the box and assume we have some form of 2d-gravity and it is going to rain a newtonian fluid? I think most surface area on the top is draining into 5. If it snows the whole sheet can turn white and the problem is gone, too.
Also, these structures are all 2 dimensional.
i hate you.
but ignoring my loss, if everything is pressurized i think 7 if unpressurized i think 5
Ignoring the walled off stuff, can you ELI5 why pressurized vs not changes things and how so?
The pipe from 2-3 is walled off though.
well i didn’t see that lol
7 won’t ever fill because the pipe from 2 to 3 is blocked off.
well i didn’t see that lol
We’ll done.
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Also, you suck.
Depends on how fast the liquid is flowing in.
Or, actually, can they even “fill”? These are 2D objects.
Is this that “loss” comic? Why is everyone mad?
Yes
The actual joke aside, 4 has a hole in it, so it won’t.
And 3 is blocked
??? 4 and 5 are not connected
Doh, you’re right, not sure what I was thinking.
Cheers, I got you bro.
5 fills from 2, not 4.
All of them are already full of air.
What if this experiment is done in space near a black hole
Is full of Hawking radiation and dreams.
