A spherical submersible 2.13 m in radius, armed with multiple cameras, descends under water in a region of the Atlantic Ocean known for shipwrecks and finds its first shipwreck at a depth of 2.48 ✕ 103 m. Seawater has density 1.025 ✕ 103 kg/m3, and the air pressure at the ocean's surface is 1.013 ✕ 105 Pa. (a) What is the absolute pressure at the depth of the shipwreck? Pa (b) What is the buoyant force on the submersible at the depth of the shipwreck? (Give the magnitude.) N
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.
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(b) What is the buoyant force on the submersible at the depth of the shipwreck? (Give the magnitude.)
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Calculate the absolute pressure at the depth of the shipwreck.
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