When Will the Cylinder Spill?

A (right, circular) cylindrical container has a height of 37cm and a radius 8cm. When perfectly upright, it contains liquid to a height of 25cm. By what angle can it be tipped before the liquid begins to spill?

Write one or two paragraphs, with diagrams when appropriate, completely explaining how you arrived at the measure of the angle. Give the answer both as an exact, theoretical angle and an approximate angle, accurate to 0.1°.

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