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Not sure what Newton III has to do with energy. Please elaborate. Thermal energy is just disordered kinetic energy. Can you be more...

Revised post: As @Baluncore reminded me, ‘displacement' in this context does not have its every day meaning. The displacement of an...

Yes, my mistake… I was using displacement to mean the volume that was occupied by water and now isn’t, which is not the definition...

@michelp: Further to @jbriggs444 response in post #2, it helps readers greatly if you define your variables up front, particularly in...

Isn't that dropping an axiom? I don’t see how it is 'strengthening' one. But then, going from real to complex is adding a closure...

Certainly in the videos corresponding to case D that is true, but it is not clear to me whether it applies in any actual experiment that...

That's one of the only two ideas I had. The video shows the water being poured over the top, but there could still be dry patches...

@deananderson , Just in case it is still not clear from the various responses above, they can be synthesised as: ##\vec...

Since the original animation was just to show the basic idea, I didn't include those types of restraints as it would be simple to do...

Do you mean, when you omit an axiom?

I think there'd be a practical problem with the orthogonal arrangement. When the horizontal bars are at the 3 o'clock/9o'clock...

The exact wording suggests that is the intention. This is reinforced by its asking for the velocity vector, not the speed. If we only...

… has to be assumed to be constant (or we do not have enough information) … an idealised mechanical system is often assumed to consist of..

And at that point, ##s=\pi/\alpha##. When will ##s## exceed that?

Enumeration problems do not, in general, fall neatly into just the two categories. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelvefold_way.