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This tag is for questions relating to pressure, in the physical sciences, the perpendicular force per unit area, or the stress at a point within a confined fluid.

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$P=ρgh$ - intuitive understanding of the equation?

I've come across this equation recently which relates pressure with the product of density, gravitational acceleration and height difference in a medium. … How do density, gravitational acceleration and height of a column of a medium "give" pressure? …
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How does a pressure difference cause a force?

Perhaps even generally, why does a pressure difference instigate changes in nature? For example, air mass traveling from a higher to lower pressure area, why/how? etc. Much obliged, once again! …
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