An outdoor, rectangular pool on campus is 4.5 meters [m] in width and 7.5 meters [m] in length. You may assume the depth of the pool is constant. If the pool is filled with pure water, the total pressure probe at the bottom of the pool reads 16.5 pound-force per square inch [psi]. What is the volume of the water in the pool in units of kiloliters [kL]?
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.
An outdoor, rectangular pool on campus is 4.5 meters [m] in width and
meters [m] in length. You may assume the depth of the pool is constant. If the pool is filled with pure water, the total pressure probe at the bottom of the pool reads
pound-force per square inch [psi]. What is the volume of the water in the pool in units of kiloliters [kL]?
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Length
|
Force
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Mass
|
Pressure
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|---|---|---|---|
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1
ft=12
in |
1
N=0.225
lbf
|
1
kg=2.205
lbm
|
1
atm=101325
Pa |
|
1
in=2.54
cm |
|
1 slug = 14.5939 kg
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1
atm=14.7
psi |
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1
m=3.28
ft |
Given
rectangular pool on campus is 4.5 meters [m] in width and
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