Your grandfather has metal-working tools in his workshop and he has helped you to design your own one-person submarine made out of aluminum for you to test out in the local lake. The mass of the submarine is 1,200 kg and its total exterior volume is 9.40 m3. You, of mass 73.0 kg, take the submarine to the lake and climb inside. Determine the volume of water (in m3) that you must allow to enter the holding tanks of your submarine to make it sink.
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.
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