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Hi Gary, There are all sorts of mud. Liquid mud, as I imagined it, is mud that is more like room temperature Hershey's chocolate syrup... mud that you could pour from a pitcher. Mud that is like chocolate milk is clearly liquid in behavior. Mud that is like catsup, which is thixotropic, can...

Archimedes said that the upward buoyant force exerted on a body immersed in a fluid is equal to the weight of the fluid the body displaces. That means that if you submerged a tire in a liquid mud, there will be a buoyant force on the tire that is equal to the weight of a tire made out of the...

Take the physics one step further: If you put a pressure gauge on a tire while it is jacked up in the air, and it reads 50psi, when it is sitting on the ground with maximum load applied, it will read ..... 50psi. Why is that? Because the tire deforms, increasing its "footprint" until the...