[Magdalen] Coffee Cups vs Wine Glasses

[Allan Carr]

Apropos of nothing much, I used to walk from office to office, or around a
factory floor, with a coffee cup perpetually in my hand. From time to time,
i'd spill some of the coffee. Now it comes out that if I'd kept my coffee
in a wine glass, my tendency to spill would have been far less. It's proved
by actual experiment by a South Korean physics student http://
tinyurl.com/jh9yr2w

I always thought the shape of the wine glass had more to do with sniffing
the wine, but maybe stability is more important to people somewhat under
the influence.

However, it looks to me that both the cup and the glass are half full in
the experiment. My coffee cup is usually full (it generally gets cold
before I drink much of it) and my wine glass (at least with red wine) is
less than half full. I think that's why I spilled far more coffee in my
lifetime than wine, although if you add in all the wine glasses I knocked
over on the table, maybe it comes out about even.

Anyway, how many of you (like me) would have picked the wine glass as
having less stable liquid, because of the way it sloshes around in the
round container?

-- 
Allan Carr