ABSTRACT

According to our professor, previous students would either be afraid to

transfer the mercury by themselves or they would play with it. In order to make

sure that any other injury is prevented, he was the one who transferred the mercury.

The professor used a drop bottle in order to transfer the right amount of substance

in the U-tube manometer. We were then given our respective values of height of

the hose which we would use in order to compute the pressure through the

Bourdon gauge. As each group performs, the height rises bit by bit. Being the last

to perform, our group has the highest height and it led us to a greater value of

Pressure.
ANALYSIS AND INTERPRATATION OF DATA AND RESULTS

Being the last group to perform, we had the largest value of Pressure, which

N
was 80,186.832 . Since the apparatus seems to be old and does not have
m2
perfect accuracy, most of our percentage errors were above 10%. Our group had a
%Diff of 10.11%, and the highest %Diff came from group 2 which was 19.76%. I
assume that their error was high because it was mixed with human error.

N
Since the value of the Unit weight (129,333.6 ) is constant for every
m3
group and the height increases per group, the value of the Pressure is directly
proportional to the value of the height. The height that we were assigned to was

N
0.62 m. The pressure that we obtained in the bourdon gauge was 88,290 2 .
m
Comparing that value to our computed value, it indeed is a bit far. Having 8,000
units away from our computation, it proves that there is really something wrong in
the instrument.

CONCLUSION

First, we learned that Mercury is not the normal type of substance that one
can just hold by their bare hands. It causes skin diseases and destroys other
materials, and so we were instructed to take caution while performing the
experiment in order to avoid injury and other negative effects. We also learned that
the U-tube manometer and its Bourdon gauge is another material that is used in
measuring gauge pressure. If the liquid is also pushed near the Bourdon gauge, the
measure of the pressure increases every time height of the hose of the U-tube is
raised.

PHOTOS OF SET-UP
The Bourdon Gauge The U-tube Manometer
 Measuring the hose of the U-tube
COMPUTATION:

Pressure Formula:
P = γh
N
= (129,333.6 )(0.62)
m3
N
= 80,186.832
m2

PBourdon∨¿
¿ γh−
%Diff = ( γh
¿ x 100

N N
=
(
¿ 80,186.832
m
2 )(
− 88,290 2 ∨
m ) ¿
N
80,186.832 2
x 100

m
¿
Summation of all pressure
16,813.368
24,573.389
34,273.45
43,973.424
49,664.10
63,373.464
71,133.48
+ 80,186.832
N
383,991.507 2
m
383,991.507
( )
8
N
= 47,992.93838 2
m