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Physics question: since sand in an hourglass exerts more force when it’s flowing downward than it does at rest, will the rising and falling of the wax make the chandelier very slightly wobble? 🤔
The water in the lava lamp does the opposite so it balances out.
When the sand is falling, it’s not exerting force. It only exerts force when it hits the bottom. There would probably be a reduction in overall weight when the sand starts falling for a split second, and a corresponding increase as the last few grains hit the bottom. But in the middle, the weight would be more or less constant, give or take random fluctuations.
Did you watch the action lab the other day too? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVzqEn_qyFM
Not likely enough to be noticeable without special extremely sensitive instruments. The wax has low mass and is moving slowly. The glass container has high mass and is at rest. Mathematically, you could derive how much the lamp moves when a wax blob hits the top of the glass. In practice, it’s likely to be negligible.
very slightly, the weight difference is so miniscule I doubt it’d even look like it were wobbling, and due to other friction in the system may not even register at all.
I’m half way there, and embarrassed! You forgot, I am not cool
Judging by these comments: People do know that lava lamps don’t have actual lava in them, right?
You never know
If you can see the blobs, it’s not lava, if it glows red or white evenly it might be.
Macroscopic water-bears
Better idea: like that, but with a ceiling fan instead.
Add LSD to taste
[Chorus]
🎶 I’m gonna swing from the chandelieer
From the chandelieeeeer 🎶lavalabra!
Lavalamptula!
(I know that makes no sense)
Sounds like a thirty year old Final Fantasy spell.
That’s the kind of spell that makes an old wizard croak after casting it.
It made sense to me and I thoroughly enjoyed your exuberance!
" How to keep yourself and five freinds occupied at the dinner party and create a centrepiece that’ll leave your guests speechless "
This is the sort of haunt I would want if I had money.
Furniture that looks like it was stitched together in a Homestuck Totem Lathe lol
all i see is potential for third-degree burns
I would pay money for that.
That’s so random
I’ll bet the floor is lava too!
ambiénce
