A moonshiner produces ethanol and stores it in a stainless tank in the form of a cylinder, 20 cm in diameter with a tight-fitting piston at the top. The total volumetric capacity of the tank is 0.20 m3 (200L). In an attempt to squeeze a little more into the tank. he piles lead bricks on the piston, the total mass of the bricks and piston is 120 kg. What additional volume of ethanol can he squeeze into the tank? Kethanol=11 x 10-10 Pa-1.
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.
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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.
A moonshiner produces ethanol and stores it in a stainless tank in the form of a cylinder, 20 cm in diameter with a tight-fitting piston at the top. The total volumetric capacity of the tank is 0.20 m3 (200L). In an attempt to squeeze a little more into the tank. he piles lead bricks on the piston, the total mass of the bricks and piston is 120 kg. What additional volume of ethanol can he squeeze into the tank? Kethanol=11 x 10-10 Pa-1.
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