assume that you can create a perfect vacuum in your mouth. you are attempting to drink water from a completely vertical straw. you place the bottom of the straw at the very top of the water level in the cup. What is the tallest straw that you could use and still have water reach the top of the straw?(not a flow problem) use energy density conservation
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.
assume that you can create a perfect vacuum in your mouth. you are attempting to drink water from a completely vertical straw. you place the bottom of the straw at the very top of the water level in the cup.
What is the tallest straw that you could use and still have water reach the top of the straw?(not a flow problem)
use energy density conservation
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