The Mariana Tremch is the deepest oceanic trench on earth. Mt Everest would comfortably fit in its maximum known depth of 36,037 ft. If the atmospheric pressure is 1 atm, and assuming the density of the sea water is a constant 1020 kg/m3 all the way down, what would be the total pressure on a living organism at the bottom of the trench?
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 Mariana Tremch is the deepest oceanic trench on earth. Mt Everest would comfortably fit in its maximum known depth of 36,037 ft. If the atmospheric pressure is 1 atm, and assuming the density of the sea water is a constant 1020 kg/m3 all the way down, what would be the total pressure on a living organism at the bottom of the trench?
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