You are designing a semi-manual hydraulic equipment that can lift 1360 kg Hennessey Venom F5 from an output platform with an area of 10.15 m2 . If an average human hand can produce a force of 110N, what would be the area (in m2) of the input platform? (Consider that you will be using a non-leaking incompressible fluid in between the output platform and the input platform. Let g = 9.8m/s2. Do not round off)
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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.
You are designing a semi-manual hydraulic equipment that can lift 1360 kg Hennessey Venom F5 from an output platform with an area of 10.15 m2 . If an average human hand can produce a force of 110N, what would be the area (in m2) of the input platform? (Consider that you will be using a non-leaking incompressible fluid in between the output platform and the input platform. Let g = 9.8m/s2. Do not round off)
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