Consider a lake of liquid water. The lake is 5.4 m deep, and has a pressure of 0.97 atm at the bottom. If the acceleration due to gravity is 6.7 m/s ^2 on this planet, what is the atmospheric pressure, p0? Assume the density of water is 1,000kg/m^3

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Consider a lake of liquid water. The lake is 5.4 m deep, and has a pressure of 0.97 atm at the bottom. If the acceleration due to gravity is 6.7 m/s ^2 on this planet, what is the atmospheric pressure, p0? Assume the density of water is 1,000kg/m^3

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