Guest Posted June 23, 2009 Report Share Posted June 23, 2009 You have a tap that can rotate and has the water going straight downwards out of it(like this) and a cup that is fixed to the bottom of the sink by it's base just out of reach of the water. With out using any other items how can you fill the cup? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted June 24, 2009 Report Share Posted June 24, 2009 One solution that springs to mind is that the liquid could be something like liquid propane which would turn into a gas at normal room conditions. Propane gas I believe is heaver then air. You could get it to come out of the tap at a rate that the sink would fill with gas. The gas would then fill the cup. This approach will work for any liquid not only propane. If you can pump more water than the sink can drain then even water will fill the sink and eventually cup. This is same as pressure solution. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted June 24, 2009 Report Share Posted June 24, 2009 We can blow air from mouth to divert the water into the cup. It will take lot of time and energy but will eventually fill the cup. or We can keeping pumping some thin bubble forming liquid slowly. This will form bubbles in the sink. Eventually the bubbles will fill the cup. As bubble above the cup pop the cup will keep filling. After some time it will fill. We can also increase the pressure and mix air with so that the it produces lot of water splinters after the water hits the sink. Some of it will go to into the cup. After some time the cup will fill. or We can slowly pump molten wax, soft butter or coconut oil which will freeze at room temperature. it will eventually block the sink, then fill the cup. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted June 24, 2009 Report Share Posted June 24, 2009 holding the cup and moving ityou can get the water in the cup simply by moving the cup with your hand to be directly under the faucet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted June 24, 2009 Report Share Posted June 24, 2009 (edited) Liquid Helium" And thats the second answer I was thinking of, any Superfluid really. I think that a lot of you should read the question in the spirit it was intended not just try to nit pick ways around it including urinating, and a lot of you seemed to be confused as to what the questions were, Edited June 24, 2009 by Omni314 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted June 25, 2009 Report Share Posted June 25, 2009 Fill the sink up with water then the cup will also be full. the cup would float with the water i believe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted June 26, 2009 Report Share Posted June 26, 2009 the cup would float with the water i believe -daltino It I'm right, the cup is fixed to the bottom of the sink preventing it from moving. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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You have a tap that can rotate and has the water going straight downwards out of it(like this) and a cup that is fixed to the bottom of the sink by it's base just out of reach of the water.
With out using any other items how can you fill the cup?
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