A submarine is currently being developed to take tourists on sightseeing trips to tropical coral reefs. According to engineering guidelines the sub must be able to withstand a pressure of 10.09 N per square millimeter. To what depth can the submarine safely descend in seawater? Take atmospheric pressure to be 101,500 Pa and the density of seawater as 1025 kg/m3
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 submarine is currently being developed to take tourists on sightseeing trips to tropical coral reefs. According to engineering guidelines the sub must be able to withstand a pressure of 10.09 N per square millimeter. To what depth can the submarine safely descend in seawater? Take atmospheric pressure to be 101,500 Pa and the density of seawater as 1025 kg/m3. Note: Be sure to convert the pressure to in N/m2
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