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1288:). Increased air pressure produced by an air compressor is transmitted through the air to the surface of oil in an underground reservoir. The oil, in turn, transmits the pressure to a piston, which lifts the automobile. The relatively low pressure that exerts the lifting force against the piston is about the same as the air pressure in automobile tires. Hydraulics is employed by modern devices ranging from very small to enormous. For example, there are hydraulic pistons in almost all construction machines where heavy loads are involved. 38: 706: 1277:, because a decrease in distance moved compensates for the increase in force. When the small piston is moved downward 100 centimeters, the large piston will be raised only one-fiftieth of this, or 2 centimeters. The input force multiplied by the distance moved by the smaller piston is equal to the output force multiplied by the distance moved by the larger piston; this is one more example of a simple machine operating on the same principle as a 1345: 900:
If a U-tube is filled with water and pistons are placed at each end, pressure exerted by the left piston will be transmitted throughout the liquid and against the bottom of the right piston (The pistons are simply "plugs" that can slide freely but snugly inside the tube.). The pressure that the left
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of the fluid between the elevations. Alternatively, the result can be interpreted as a pressure change caused by the change of potential energy per unit volume of the liquid due to the existence of the gravitational field. Note that the variation with height does not depend on any additional
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is important: the additional pressure is exerted against the entire area of the larger piston. Since there is 50 times the area, 50 times as much force is exerted on the larger piston. Thus, the larger piston will support a 50 N load - fifty times the load on the smaller piston.
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A change in pressure at any point in an enclosed incompressible fluid at rest is transmitted equally and undiminished to all points in all directions throughout the fluid, and the force due to the pressure acts at right angles to the enclosing
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input produces 50 newtons output. By further increasing the area of the larger piston (or reducing the area of the smaller piston), forces can be multiplied, in principle, by any amount. Pascal's principle underlies the operation of the
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that states that a pressure change at any point in a confined incompressible fluid is transmitted throughout the fluid such that the same change occurs everywhere. The law was established by
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The experiment is mentioned nowhere in Pascal's preserved works and it may be apocryphal, attributed to him by 19th-century French authors, among whom the experiment is known as
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Usually Pascal's rule is applied to confined space (static flow), but due to the continuous flow process, Pascal's principle can be applied to the
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is the height of fluid above the point of measurement, or the difference in elevation between the two points within the fluid column (in meters).
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ProblÚmes de mathématiques et de physique: donnés dans les Facultés des science et notamment à la Sorbonne, avec les solutions raisonnées
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Acheson, D. J. (1990), Elementary Fluid Dynamics, Oxford Applied Mathematics and Computing Science Series, Oxford University Press,
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A typical application of Pascal's principle for gases and liquids is the automobile lift seen in many service stations (the
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For a fluid column in a uniform gravity (e.g. in a hydraulic press), this principle can be stated mathematically as:
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piston exerts against the water will be exactly equal to the pressure the water exerts against the right piston
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The intuitive explanation of this formula is that the change in pressure between two elevations is due to the
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system), or the difference in pressure at two points within a fluid column, due to the weight of the fluid);
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in 1646. In the experiment, Pascal supposedly inserted a long vertical tube into an (otherwise sealed)
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perhaps first in an educational context; the attribution is found under this name in A. Merlette,
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l'expérience du crÚve-tonneau réalisée pour la premiÚre fois par le célÚbre Biaise Pascal.
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which is 50 times bigger than the force on the left piston. The difference between
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filled with water. When water was poured into the vertical tube, the increase in
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L'encyclopédie des écoles, journal de l'enseignement primaire et professionnel
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Traitez de l'Equilibre des Liqueurs (Treatise on the Equilibrium of Fluids)
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pressures. Therefore, Pascal's law can be interpreted as saying that
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Pressure in water and air. Pascal's law applies for fluids.
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must understand this principle. Starting from normal
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Index

Pascals law
Pascal's rule

Continuum mechanics
Fick's laws of diffusion
Mass
Momentum
Energy
Clausius–Duhem (entropy)
Solid mechanics
Deformation
Elasticity
linear
Plasticity
Hooke's law
Stress
Strain
Finite strain
Infinitesimal strain
Compatibility
Bending
Contact mechanics
frictional
Material failure theory
Fracture mechanics
Fluid mechanics
Fluids
Statics
Dynamics
Archimedes' principle

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