The leaky tank mystery

Supervisors

• Prof Derek Abbott
• Benjamin

Honours students

• 2024: Eric Tsoukatos, Michael Stefani, and Lachlan Mann, see The leaky tank mystery 2024

Project guidelines

• Project Handbook

Useful notes

As useful bits of information come to light, just list them here:

Possible extension

If you knock off this project too easily, you can extend the work to analysis Feynman's sprinkler.

Expectations

• To get good marks we expect you to show a logical approach to decisively eliminating hypotheses.

• In your conclusion, you need to come up with a short list of likely possibilities and a list of things you can definitely eliminate.

• We expect all the written work to be place on this wiki. No paper reports are to be handed up.

• It is expected that you fill out a short progress report on the wiki each week, every Friday evening, to briefly state what you did that week and what the goals are for the following week.

• It is important to regularly see your main supervisors. Don't let more than 2 week go by without them seeing your face briefly.

• You should be making at least one formal progress meeting with supervisors per month. It does not strictly have to be exactly a month, but roughly each month you should be in a position to show some progress and have some problems and difficulties to discuss.

• The onus is on you to drive the meetings, make the appointments and set them up.

• You are expected to make a YouTube presentation of your whole project.

Relationship to possible career path

The skills you pick up up in sultaing this problem will be relevant to hydrology and all forms of mechanical and civil engineering that consider fluid flow.

References and useful resources

If you find any useful external links, list them here:

• Motion of a leaky tank
• Haldane's cart

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