Caught in an avalanche, a skier is fully submerged in flowing snow of density 96 kg/m3. Assume that the average density of the skier, clothing, and skiing equipment is 1020 kg/m3. What percentage of the gravitational force on the skier is offset by the buoyant force from the snow?
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.
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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.
Caught in an avalanche, a skier is fully submerged in
flowing snow of density 96 kg/m3. Assume that the average density
of the skier, clothing, and skiing equipment is 1020 kg/m3. What
percentage of the gravitational force on the skier is offset by the
buoyant force from the snow?
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