this post was submitted on 16 Jan 2025
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The engineering way to do it. Why go through the trouble of perfectly modeling it if you can just test a few times. Either that or consider the jug a cylinder and add a safety factor of 2.
the safety factor got me
It also gives you a way to validate your calculations when you inevitably do model it.