You inflate the tires of your car to a gauge pressure of 38.5 lb/in2. If your car has a mass of 1375 kg and is supported equally by its four tires, determine the following. (a) Contact area between each tire and the road m2 (b) Will the contact area increase, decrease, or stay the same when the gauge pressure is decreased? O increase O decrease O stay the same (c) Gauge pressure required to give each tire a contact area of 114 cm2 Ib/in2
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.
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