The mercury level in the left arm of the J-shaped tube is attached to a thermostat gas-containing bulb. The left arm is 10.83 cm and the right arm is 34.71 cm above the bottom of the manometer. If the barometric pressure reads 738.4 Torr, what is the pressure of the gas? Assume that temperature-induced changes in the reading of the barometer and J tube are small enough to neglect.
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 mercury level in the left arm of the J-shaped tube is attached to a thermostat gas-containing bulb. The left arm is 10.83 cm and the right arm is 34.71 cm above the bottom of the manometer. If the barometric pressure reads 738.4 Torr, what is the pressure of the gas? Assume that temperature-induced changes in the reading of the barometer and J tube are small enough to neglect.
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