A further complication is that the aluminium is considerably thicker on the base and the top… so there’s more thin metal, and less thick metal.
A further complication is that the aluminium is considerably thicker on the base and the top… so there’s more thin metal, and less thick metal.
This is Piaget’s conservation of volume test. I did this experiment at school (we went to the elementary school next door and ran tests on the kids). Most of the kids said the higher one held more liquid because it was ‘taller’, though some said the short one had more because it was ‘fatter’.