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Feb 4, 2017 at 23:56 comment added user93237 In the left diagram, you can think of the situation as a ball in a little cubical chamber being pressurized by a long, heavy piston with a small cross-sectional area (i.e., the narrow column of water). In the right diagram, you have the another ball in a cubical chamber but now the chamber is pressurized by an even heavier piston than the the one on the left AND this heavier piston also has a larger cross-sectional area than the piston on the left. So which chamber has a higher pressure? Sure, the piston on the right is pushing with more force, but that force is pushing over a larger area.
Feb 4, 2017 at 23:41 comment added Phoenix87 Pressure is weight over surface. Is this ratio really higher in the picture on the right? Why would that be the case?
Feb 4, 2017 at 23:33 comment added SarpSTA PS: I found a very similar question on the site before asking the question and I even took the image from there however, OP of that question asks something slightly different based on a thought experiment and it hasn't got an answer that answers my question so please don't mark as duplicate.
Feb 4, 2017 at 23:32 history asked SarpSTA CC BY-SA 3.0