Q2) The figure below represents a hydraulic car jack has an output cylinder 30 cm in diameter and an input cylinder 5 cm in diameter and is filled with oil of density 900 kg/m 3. An automobile of mass 1200 kg needs to be elevated 35 cm. (a) How far does the piston of the input cylinder need to move? (b) What is the magnitude of the force on the input piston required to keep the car elevated?
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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