Name: QUIZ – Pascal’s Principle

Date: Period:

Answer all questions on a separate sheet. As always, show your work.

Define the following terms in your own words.

1. Pressure:

2. Pascal’s Principle:

3. Absolute Pressure:

4. Atmospheric Pressure:

Answer the following questions:

5. A water bed is 9.00 m on a side and 80.0 cm deep.
a. Find its weight.

b. Find the pressure exerted by the bed on the floor if the bed rests on its side.

6. In a car lift, compressed air exerts a force on a piston with a radius of 8.00 cm. This
pressure is transmitted to a second piston, of radius 14.0 cm.
a. What force must the compressed air exert in order to lift a car weighing 2.33 x 106 N?

b. What air pressure produces this force? Neglect the weights of the pistons.

7. Estimate the force exerted on your eardrum due to the water when you are swimming
at the bottom of a pool that is 9.0 m deep. Assume the surface area of the eardrum to be
approximately 6 cm².

8. Refer to pascals principle for this problem. A hydraulic lift needs to apply a force of 50,000N. The
diameter of the lift piston is 18cm while the diameter pump piston is 5cm. What pumping force is required?

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