A friend asks you how much pressure is in your car tires. Unfortunately, you have misplaced your gauge but confident in your knowledge of physics you tell your friend “I can figure it out”. From the owner’s manual you find that the car’s mass is 1450 kg and that the tire manufacturer recommends 32 psi. Assuming that each tire supports one-fourth of the weight of the car, you use a ruler to find that the tires are 15 cm wide and the flattened segment of the tire in contact with the road is 16 cm long. What answer do you give your friend? Express your answers in pounds per square inch (psi)
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.
A friend asks you how much pressure is in your car tires. Unfortunately, you have misplaced your gauge but confident in your knowledge of physics you tell your friend “I can figure it out”. From the owner’s manual you find that the car’s mass is 1450 kg and that the tire manufacturer recommends 32 psi. Assuming that each tire supports one-fourth of the weight of the car, you use a ruler to find that the tires are 15 cm wide and the flattened segment of the tire in contact with the road is 16 cm long. What answer do you give your friend?
Express your answers in pounds per square inch (psi)
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