How do glass companies know how to mold an hourglass to have the sand fall precisely?

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How do glass companies know how to mold an hourglass to have the sand fall precisely?

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These answers are probably right in practice, but you absolutely can model the sand as a fluid flow and determine flow rate based upon neck size. Then you can scale very easily to any time or glass size.

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