A mercury barometer is an instrument in which the weight of a column of mercury in a glass tube with a sealed top is balanced against that of the atmosphere pressing on an exposed cistern of mercury at the base of the mercury column. The height of the column varies with atmospheric pressure. What is the height of the mercury column if you are on top of a mountain where the pressure of the atmosphere is 0.583 atm? The density of mercury is 13.6x10^3 kg/m^3 Please enter a numerical answer below. Accepted formats are numbers or "e" based scientific notation e.g. 0.23, -2, 1e6, 5.23e-8
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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.
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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.
A mercury barometer is an instrument in which the weight of a column of mercury in a glass tube with a sealed top is balanced against that of the atmosphere pressing on an exposed cistern of mercury at the base of the mercury column. The height of the column varies with atmospheric pressure. What is the height of the mercury column if you are on top of a mountain where the pressure of the atmosphere is 0.583 atm? The density of mercury is 13.6x10^3 kg/m^3
Please enter a numerical answer below. Accepted formats are numbers or "e" based scientific notation e.g. 0.23, -2, 1e6, 5.23e-8
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it is not 0.317 i tired that answer
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