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If air was significantly compressed, and then the force compressing it suddenly disappeared (no container), what would happen?
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If air was significantly compressed, and then the force compressing it suddenly disappeared (no container), what would happen?
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I'm imagining significantly compressed, but ...
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Find pressure of liquids without making contact with it
Is there any way to find the pressure of a liquid inside a closed container without making contact with it?
You can make any assumptions, like transparent container or anything, only rule, the ...
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How come a whistling kettle starts whistling only when water boils, and not long before - due to hot air escaping under pressure?
A whistling kettle will start to whistle when the water boils and turns into a jet of steam which then exits the small aperture in the spout.
But why doesn't this happen much earlier - when the air ...
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Why does my door shut faster when the window is open?
I've noticed that if I shut my door when the window is open in a room, the door will tend to shut faster. If I shut the door when the window is closed with a normal force it will not fully close as if ...
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Physics of the inverted bottle dispenser
When you invert a water-bottle in a container, the water rises and then stops at a particular level --- as soon as it touches the hole of the inverted bottle. This will happen no matter how long your ...
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Why should fluids be confined for Pascal's Law to be applicable
When is Pascal's law about fluid pressure propagation applicable? Is
it applicable to a closed circular pipe with a pump rotating the
fluid, but not to a tub of water. Most statements require only ...
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effect of atmospheric pressure on reading of a weighing scale
Let us consider a completely sealed weighing scale such that the air pressure above and below the pan of the scale are equal and is equal to 1 atm. pressure. The scale initially reads zero. Now if ...
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Buoyancy Problem - Cubes in water
I have a tank with water (10 m high) , with an ideal seal at the bottom (water can't fall down, but can enter bodies).
I have a system of 6 cubes ( of polystyrene density= 20 Kg/m^3) with dimension ...
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Is this a correct interpretation of pressure?
So I am told that pressure = Force per Area --> F/A..
When considering the units of Force I find that force = kg * m/s^2
When considering the units of Area I find that area = m^2
Thus the units of ...
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Internal moment in the hull of a pressure vessel
This question is related to the course structural analysis. As part of our exam grade every student has been given different multiple homework assignments which we have to solve.
One of the problems ...
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Determine the maximum height a pump can suck up water
I am working on a homework problem that presents the scenario of trying to raise water from a small reservoir of depth 8 m whose surface is 25 m below a pump that can maintain a pressure differential ...
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How to model/simulate pressures and flows in a network of pipes
I'm having a hard time finding information on how to model/simulate this. I attached a couple files, both of which show an example tank & pump network. It's just nonsense that I made up for this ...
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