You want to test whether your bar of gold is pure or not. It has a mass of 1000 g when you measured in air and 960g when totally submerged in water. Is your bar of gold pure or not? The density of pure gold is 19.3 g/cm3. If not, what is the percentage of impurities?
Fluid Pressure
The term fluid pressure is coined as, the measurement of the force per unit area of a given surface of a closed container. It is a branch of physics that helps to study the properties of fluid under various conditions of force.
Gauge Pressure
Pressure is the physical force acting per unit area on a body; the applied force is perpendicular to the surface of the object per unit area. The air around us at sea level exerts a pressure (atmospheric pressure) of about 14.7 psi but this doesn’t seem to bother anyone as the bodily fluids are constantly pushing outwards with the same force but if one swims down into the ocean a few feet below the surface one can notice the difference, there is increased pressure on the eardrum, this is due to an increase in hydrostatic pressure.
You want to test whether your bar of gold is pure or not. It has a mass of 1000 g when you measured
in air and 960g when totally submerged in water. Is your bar of gold pure or not? The density of pure
gold is 19.3 g/cm3. If not, what is the percentage of impurities?
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