Part A: The human body typically contains 4.9 L of blood of density 1060 kg/m^3 . How many kilograms of blood are in the body? Part B: The average blood pressure is 1.30×104 Pa at the heart. What average force does the blood exert on each square centimeter of the heart? Part C: Red blood cells have a specific gravity of 5.0 and a diameter of about 7.5 μm. If they are spherical in shape (which is not quite true), what is the mass of such a cell?
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.
Part A: The human body typically contains 4.9 L of blood of density 1060 kg/m^3 . How many kilograms of blood are in the body?
Part B: The average blood pressure is 1.30×104 Pa at the heart. What average force does the blood exert on each square centimeter of the heart?
Part C: Red blood cells have a specific gravity of 5.0 and a diameter of about 7.5 μm. If they are spherical in shape (which is not quite true), what is the mass of such a cell?
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