{"id":6501,"date":"2019-10-17T14:58:19","date_gmt":"2019-10-17T14:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/?p=6501"},"modified":"2024-01-22T14:15:59","modified_gmt":"2024-01-22T14:15:59","slug":"water-hammer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/2019\/10\/water-hammer\/","title":{"rendered":"Water Hammer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/water-hammer.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6502\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-6502 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/water-hammer-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"water hammer\" width=\"478\" height=\"358\" srcset=\"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/water-hammer-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/water-hammer-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/water-hammer-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/water-hammer-772x579.jpg 772w, https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/water-hammer-624x468.jpg 624w, https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/water-hammer.jpg 1594w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 478px) 100vw, 478px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0The water-containing flask has been partially evacuated, allowing the water\u00a0inside to fall as one solid column. (Typically water breaks up as it falls through air, due to drag.) The sound made when the water hits the bottom is quite remarkable.<\/li>\n<li>To use: hold the flask vertically with the bulb at the top. Quickly shake the flask up and down once. When the water hits the bottom it sounds (and feels!) more like a solid metal object than a fluid.\u00a0\u00a0In fact,\u00a0I&#8217;m convinced that the flask would break if shaken hard enough, though the information sheet doesn&#8217;t caution against it.<\/li>\n<li>Located in L02, section D1.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; \u00a0The water-containing flask has been partially evacuated, allowing the water\u00a0inside to fall as one solid column. (Typically water breaks up as it falls through air, due to drag.) The sound made when the water hits the bottom is quite remarkable. To use: hold the flask vertically with the bulb at the top. Quickly shake &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/2019\/10\/water-hammer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Water Hammer<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6502,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,6],"tags":[631,201,236,238,269,520,29],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6501"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6501"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6523,"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6501\/revisions\/6523"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}