Water pressure is greatest against the
bottom of a submerged object
A dam is thicker at the bottom than at the top partly because
water pressure is greater with increasing depth
The pressure in a liquid depends on liquid
both of these (density and depth)
One liter of water has a mass of
1 kilogram
Blood pressure is normally greater in your
feet
What is the buoyant force acting on a 10-ton ship floating in the ocean?
10 tons
When an object is partly or wholly immersed in a liquid, it is buoyed up
by a force equal to the weight of liquid displaced
The mass of a cubic meter of water is
1000 kg
Pumice is a volcanic rock that floats. Its density is
less than the density of water
The reason that buoyant force acts upward on a submerged object is that
upward pressure against the bottom is greater than downward pressure against the top of the submerged object
A completely submerged object always displaces its own
volume of fluid
Compared to the density of water, the density of a fish is
the same
The buoyant force on an object is least when the object is
partly submerged
The buoyant force on a rock is least when the rock is submerged
buoyant force does not depend on depth
The reason a life jacket helps you float is
the density of both you and the jacket together is less than your density alone
When holes are drilled through the wall of a water tower, water will spurt out the greatest horizontal distance from the hole closest to
the bottom of the tower
The density of a submerged submarine is about the same as the density of
water
A floating ice cube contains small pieces of iron. During melting the water level will
fall
The pascal is a pressure unit equal to one
newton per square meter
To multiply the input force of a hydraulic lift, the input end should be the one having the
smaller diameter piston
The ratio of output force to input force of a hydraulic press will be equal to the ratio of the output and input piston
areas
A hydraulic press multiplies a force by 100. This multiplication is done at the expense of
the distance through which the force acts
A consequence of the surface tension of water is
all of these
Surface tension is a direct result of
cohesive forces between molecules in a liquid
Surface tension of liquids
decreases as the liquid temperature increases
A large block of wood and a smaller block of iron on weighing scales both register 1 ton. Taking buoyancy of air into account, which has the greater mass?
wood
In drinking soda or water through a straw, we make use of
atmospheric pressure
At normal atmospheric pressure and temperature, 1 cubic meter of air has a mass of about
1.25 kg
Marshmallows in a vacuum become
larger
About how high can water at sea level be theoretically lifted by a vacuum pump?
10.3 m
When a suction cup sticks to a wall it is
pushed to the wall by the atmosphere
When water is turned on in a shower, the shower curtain moves toward the water spray. This partly involves
pressure changes in moving fluids
The Bernoulli effect causes passing ships to be drawn together when the ships are close and moving in
either the same or opposite directions (either of these)
The tarp covering on a trailer or truck puffs upward for fast-moving vehicles, which illustrates
Bernoulli’s principle
The principle of continuity states that for fluid flow to be continuous it must in narrow regions of flow
both of these (speed and slow down)
As fluid gains speed, its internal pressure flow
decreases
When a gas in a container is squeezed to half its volume with no change in temperature, the gas pressure
doubles
When a gas in a container is squeezed to half its volume, its density
doubles
When a gas in a container expands to twice its volume, its density
halves
When boarding an airplane you bring a bag of chips. While in flight the bag puffs up, because
air pressure in the air-tight bag is greater than cabin air pressure
A swimmer cannot snorkel more than a meter deep because air
at the surface will not freely enter the higher pressure region in the compressed lungs
A bubble of air released from the bottom of a lake
becomes larger as it rises
A scuba diver losing her air supply while far beneath the water surface is advised when ascending to
allow air to escape her lungs
An empty jar is pushed open-side downward into water so that trapped air cannot escape. As it is pushed deeper, the buoyant force on the jar
decreases
Archimedes’ principle applies to
all of these
the buoyant force of the atmosphere on a body is equal to the
weight of air displaced
The flight of a blimp best illustrates
Archimedes’ principle
An object in a vacuum has no
buoyant force
A car with closed windows makes a left hand turn. a helium-filled balloon in the car moves to the
left
Compared with air pressure on the outside, air pressure inside an inflated stretched balloon is
greater
Atmospheric molecules do not fly off into outer space due to
Earth gravitation cohesive forces
Atmospheric pressure is caused by the
weight of the atmosphere
The air in your classroom has
all the above
About what percentage of molecules in the air make up the atmosphere below a 6-kilometer altitude?
more than 50%
The energy source responsible for molecular motions in Earth’s atmosphere is
the sun