Timeline for Dependence of fluid pressure being on height and not mass
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Jul 17, 2019 at 16:00 | history | bumped | CommunityBot | This question has answers that may be good or bad; the system has marked it active so that they can be reviewed. | |
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Feb 5, 2017 at 9:56 | answer | added | Farcher | timeline score: 1 | |
Feb 5, 2017 at 4:48 | answer | added | Lelouch | timeline score: 0 | |
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 |