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What is weight at the particle level? How EXACTLY do atoms exert weight on each other?

This is what my intuition says about how the concept of weight works in a solid. The light brown arrows are the vectors of gravitational force, the light gray parts are the electron clouds around ...
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Weight of a container of gas and container shape [duplicate]

Consider a cube shaped container with one mole of gas inside. Acceleration due to gravity would give the difference in force between the top of the container and the bottom to be mg, with net force ...
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Does the weight of fluid in a conical container act entirely on the base?

Scenario description Lets assume both containers have a capacity of 300 litres. One is a vertical tube as shown in pic 1 Other one is more or less a V shaped containers as shown in pic 2 Both are ...
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