[Magdalen] Coffee Cups vs Wine Glasses

[Allan Carr]

Thinking about it a little late, I should have titled this Coffee Mugs vs
Wine Glasses.

On Mon, Sep 5, 2016 at 11:04 PM, Allan Carr <allanc25 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>



-- 
Allan Carr