A cylindrical disk of Figure E12.21 -30.0 cm- wood weighing 45.0 N and hav- ing a diameter of 30.0 cm floats on a cylinder of oil of density 0.850 g/cm (Fig. E12.21). The cylinder of oil is 75.0 cm deep and has a diameter the same as Wooden disk Oil that of the wood. (a) What is the gauge pressure at the top of the oil column? (b) Suppose now that someone puts a weight of 83.0 N on top of the wood, but no oil seeps around the edge of the wood. What is the change 75.0 cm in pressure at (i) the bottom of the oil and (ii) halfway down in the oil?
Fluid Pressure
The term fluid pressure is coined as, the measurement of the force per unit area of a given surface of a closed container. It is a branch of physics that helps to study the properties of fluid under various conditions of force.
Gauge Pressure
Pressure is the physical force acting per unit area on a body; the applied force is perpendicular to the surface of the object per unit area. The air around us at sea level exerts a pressure (atmospheric pressure) of about 14.7 psi but this doesn’t seem to bother anyone as the bodily fluids are constantly pushing outwards with the same force but if one swims down into the ocean a few feet below the surface one can notice the difference, there is increased pressure on the eardrum, this is due to an increase in hydrostatic pressure.
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