Write down the strength of liquid pressure in the increasing order, as it goes down. What is the reason?
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Explanation:
What does pressure mean?
If you tried to hammer a bowling pin into the wall, nothing would probably happen except for people deciding to no longer lend you their bowling pins. However, if you hammer with the same force on a nail, the nail would be a lot more likely to penetrate the wall. This shows that sometimes just knowing the magnitude of the force isn't enough: you also have to know how that force is distributed on the surface of impact. For the nail, all the force between the wall and the nail was concentrated into the very small area on the sharp tip of the nail. However, for the bowling pin the area touching the wall was much larger, and therefore the force was much less concentrated.
Person hitting a bowling pin and a nail with a hammer.
Person hitting a bowling pin and a nail with a hammer.
To make this concept precise, we use the idea of pressure. Pressure is defined to be the amount of force exerted per area.
{\Large P=\dfrac{F}{A}}P=
A
F