The plastic tube has a cross-sectional area of 5.00 cm2. The tube is filled with water until the short arm (of length d = 0.800 m) is full.Then the short arm is sealed and more water is gradually poured into the long arm. If the seal will pop off when the force on it exceeds 9.80 N, what total height of water in the long arm will put the seal on the verge of popping?
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 plastic tube has a
cross-sectional area of 5.00 cm2. The tube is
filled with water until the short arm (of
length d = 0.800 m) is full.Then the short arm
is sealed and more water is gradually poured
into the long arm. If the seal will pop off when
the force on it exceeds 9.80 N, what total
height of water in the long arm will put the seal
on the verge of popping?
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