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thereisafrx t1_j5rz7fz wrote

Think about it this way, if you put a quarter on a small hill and rolled it down the hill, and a large stone disk on a proportionally-larger hill, would the large stone disk roll for longer?

Same for the two cases of the fluids in large/small containers, except with the solids there are no viscous forces to consider.

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Psychotic_EGG t1_j5smwcm wrote

I mean, if they knew the answer to your question, they probably wouldn't have asked theirs.

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thereisafrx t1_j5v6882 wrote

Not necessarily.

Lots of people have rolled stones down hills, or pushed something down the stairs, etc.

As such, a lot more people have a more intuitive concept of how solid mass interacts with the surrounding environment, but fluids are a different beast entirely so it wouldn't be something a lot of folks would have common experience with.

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