Water Suppose that the top portion of the tower is circular with a diameter of 20 ft, and the outside atmospheric pressure is 14.7 psi. This tower stands over a reservoir as presented below and the water level inside the tower is h=12 ft. Compute the magnitude and direction of the force that the top surface of the tower is subiected to.
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 pressure of the water at the top surface of the tower is
The pressure at a height h is 137197.38 Pa
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