The cup is solid, but the water remains liquid unless you freeze it into ice.
Is your head filled with liquid or is that a solid?
Water is an amorphous liquid; it takes the form of any structure that contains it. Pouring water into a cup would result in a cup filled with "cup-shaped" water.
the paper cup cannot become appreciably hotter than the water it contains
a cup is a solid
It depends on what is in the cup, if you talking about the cup its self, then it is a solid.
A solid will stay compact. The molecules in the solid will be so tight that the solid will keep it's shape. Think of putting a brick in a cup, the brick will stay the same shape as opposed to putting water in a cup, which will take the shape of the cup.
The answer will depend on the size of the cup and, therefore, the quantity of water in it!
When a cup is filled with boiling water, the heat from the water caused the material of the cup to experience thermal expansion. If the cup is badly made, then different parts of it will expand to different extents and this will create stresses in the material of the cup causing it to crack.
All you need to do for any solid is place it in enough water to displace the amount needed. For example, place the solid crisco in one cup of water in a two cup measuring cup, add the solid crisco until it hits the two cup line and you have a cup of solid crisco.
Water is an amorphous liquid; it takes the form of any structure that contains it. Pouring water into a cup would result in a cup filled with "cup-shaped" water.
If you are asking if a cup filled with water and ice, when the ice melts, will the water overflow, then the answer is no. As the ice becomes water, then it loses its ability to displace the water that it was first displacing as it was ice. So in the end, the water level won't raise or fall as the ice melts, it just replaces the space it once filled with water, leaving you with a full cup of water.
They gave the prisoners a small bowl or cup filled with water
its not
yes, this is why if you put a filled to the brim cup of water in the freezer, it overflows when it is frozen....
If it's a paper cup, the cup can absorb the water, but the water won't go in. A solid's particles are packed tightly together and a liquid's particles are a bit more spread apart. A solid only vibrates in place, and because of gravity, a liquid cannot go up. Hope this helps.
the paper cup cannot become appreciably hotter than the water it contains
The zone of saturation would not be completely solid. However, the pore spaces would be filled with water.
a cup is a solid