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Rotating Tank
M-d5k



A large but thin, clear rectangular box is half-filled with colored water and rotated. The water surface forms a parabola.


Fishbane Chapter:   5.4
PIRA DCS classification:   1D52.20

Physics Lecture Demonstrations at the Department of Physics and Astronomy
The Johns Hopkins University