The reason Pringles fit so nicely in a cylindrical tube is because they're hyperbolic paraboloids plotted over a circular domainpic.twitter.com/BUzjPw7e17
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Could is be anologous to or related to Pressure variation with depth : P = Po + rho*g*h??? Cc:
@BlackPhysicists@nuclear94 Help me out with understanding my question in the above thread???
I think it's more that the ones on the bottom have all the weight on them from the other pringles on top, and so when they get shaken around in shipping the ones on the bottom get crushed by all the others on top
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It's that, plus the ones at the bottom likely experience more impulse forces on packaging, i.e., fall further into the can thus have more velocity upon stopping, thus need more impulse force to stop. Then there's all the sliding friction forces + Euler buckling of the column.
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So—- if perfectly shipped (in an ideal world)— zero shaking, none would break??? Weight atop them alone isn’t enough to crush them? (I tend to agree IFF the short packs have as many broken ones at the bottom as tall packs— less weight atop in short packs)
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This is a job for the Hydraulic Press Channelhttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NXnK59dRghs …
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