Variables of State: Pressure
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- Einstein, Newton, and Pascall were playing a game of hide-and-seek. Einstein counted while Pascall ran to hid. Newton drew a square on the ground and stood in it. Einstein ran f…
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- Generally, pressure measures the force per unit area that acts on a surface. For a gas, this force comes from the gas molecules that rebound off the surface as it travels in ran…
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- Pressure is the force over area. But it is a scalar, and not a vector. This does not seem to make sense because force is a vector. This is actually because Force can written as …
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