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[โ€“] HereIAm@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I assume for the college level students it's who can mark the level of the water most accurately? I certainly hope all of them would at least mark the water line horizontal to the ground

[โ€“] psud@aussie.zone 2 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Wikipedia suggests a common failure is to not change the angle of the water surface, leaving it parallel to the base of the tube rather than to gravity