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OK Thanks guys. I'll rework it and have a little chat with him

OK. So like this then? http://imgur.com/zvrjcVt But it sounds like everyone is as puzzled as me as to how one could use a Fourier series..

I was unsure how the Fourier series would come into it as well. How would you drop the assumption, allowing for the possiblity that it might be a cone, or cylinder or anything? By assuming it was a curve I was able to solve for the 1/4 power.

Our Fluid Mechanics professor gave us a challenge: to find the shape of a vessel with a hole at the bottom such that the water level in the vessel will change at a constant rate (i.e. if z is the height of the water in the tank dz/dt=constant). I presented a solution assuming that the vessel...