Consider the figure above, taken from a Webassign HW problem on Fluids. The small piston has a cross-sectional area of 2 cm2, and the large piston has a cross-sectional area of 200 cm2. The force F1 applied at the small piston is 196 Newtons. What maximum mass can be lifted at the large piston?
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.
Consider the figure above, taken from a Webassign HW problem on Fluids. The small piston has a cross-sectional area of 2 cm2, and the large piston has a cross-sectional area of 200 cm2. The force F1 applied at the small piston is 196 Newtons. What maximum mass can be lifted at the large piston?
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