Physics of Everyday Phenomena
Physics of Everyday Phenomena
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ISBN: 9781259894008
Author: W. Thomas Griffith, Juliet Brosing Professor
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 9, Problem 6E

The load-bearing piston in a certain hydraulic system has an area 70 times as large as the input piston. If the larger piston supports a load of 6160 N, how large a force must be applied to the input piston?

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