Hydrostatics Lab: Hydrostatic Pressure and Forces

P a g e | 1 Hydrostatics Lab: Hydrostatic Pressure and Forces John Felkins Abstract Hydrostatics offers physical explanations for many occurrences of everyday life, such as why atmospheric Pressure changes with altitude, why wood and oil float on water, and why the surface of water is always flat and horizontal whatever the shape of its container. In this lab, the center of Pressure and the force on a vertical rectangular surface partially, and then fully, submerged in water at rest were determined with an Edibon Hydrostatics Pressure System and set of weights with known masses.

Hydrostatics is the study of fluid statics and is the basis to the study of hydraulics, fluid dynamics, which plays a huge role in engineering. Hydrostatic pressure is the pressure water exerts due to its weight per unit area at some depth. Some principles which always apply to

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