Pressure cookers use water at very high pressures to cook food very quickly. They have been around for more than 300 years, although their use has strongly declined in recent years (early models had a nasty habit of exploding). a) How much force, in newtons, must the latches holding the lid onto a pressure cooker be able to withstand if the circular lid is 25.5 cm in diameter and the gauge pressure inside is 1.05 atm? Neglect the weight of the lid. F = ______
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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Problem 6: Pressure cookers use water at very high pressures to cook food very quickly. They have been around for more than 300 years, although their use has strongly declined in recent years (early models had a nasty habit of exploding).
a) How much force, in newtons, must the latches holding the lid onto a pressure cooker be able to withstand if the circular lid is 25.5 cm in diameter and the gauge pressure inside is 1.05 atm? Neglect the weight of the lid.
F = ______
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