Normal atmospheric pressure at location A is 1.010 x 105 Pa. During a storm, the mercury column drops 20.0 mm in the mercury barometer at location A. What is the atmospheric pressure during the storm? The density of mercury is 13.59 g/cm³ and g = 9.80 m/s². 9.83 x 104 Pa O 9.85 x 10 Pa O 986 x 104 Pa O 1.00 x 105 Pa
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.


The barometric formula is given
Where: is the final atmospheric pressure.
is the initial atmospheric pressure.
is the density of mercury.
is the acceleration due to gravity.
is the change in height of the mercury column.
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