Practice Basic Hydrostatic Concepts (1.2.2) - Lecture - 13 - Fluid Mechanics

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Question 1.
What happens to pressure as you go deeper in a fluid?
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Consider the weight of the fluid above.
Question 2.
What does Pascal's Law state?
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Think about how pressure feels when you squirt a tube.
3Question 3.
What principle states that pressure in a fluid at rest increases with depth?
- Bernoulli's Principle
- Pascal's Law
- Hydrostatics
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Think of a swimming pool!
4Question 4.
True or False: The pressure at the free surface of a fluid is zero.
- True
- False
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What do we measure pressure against?
Question 5.
A dam has a vertical face submerged in water. Calculate the hydrostatic force on a section of the dam 10 m wide and 6 m tall.
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Start by calculating average pressure across the height.
Question 6.
You're designing a water tank. What dimensions would maximize stability given a center of buoyancy higher than the center of gravity?
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Think about shapes like a pyramid versus a cube.

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