In his experiment to test whether the crown of the King of Syracuse was made of pure gold or not, Archimedes immersed the crown into a container filled with water. He noted that the crown displaced 150 mL of water. If the mass of the crown is 2675 g, is it made of pure gold? When immersed in a container filled with water, a ball of mass 500 g displaced 250 mL of water. How much water would a 350 g ball (made of the same material as the 500 g ball) displace?
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.
- In his experiment to test whether the crown of the King of Syracuse was made of pure gold or not, Archimedes immersed the crown into a container filled with water. He noted that the crown displaced 150 mL of water. If the mass of the crown is 2675 g, is it made of pure gold?
- When immersed in a container filled with water, a ball of mass 500 g displaced 250 mL of water. How much water would a 350 g ball (made of the same material as the 500 g ball) displace?
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