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A student wants to find the absolute pressure of water at a point below the surface of water. He has a barometer and a manometer pressure gauge. The barometer reads 1.3152 bar where as the manometer pressure gauge reads 0.3152 bar. What is the absolute pressure? (Assume that pressure at one end of the manometer is atmospheric.)
A __________ type pressure sensing element is commonly used in aneroid barometer.
An aneroid barometer
The liquid employed in aneroid barometer.
In the previous question Air is trapped in the space (labelled A) above the mercury level in the tube of a barometer, which measures 750 mm Hg. If the atmospheric pressure is 760 mm Hg, then the pressure of the trapped air is
Consider the following statements.
1. SI unit of atmospheric pressure is Nm-2 or pascal and CGS unit is dyne/cm2.
2. The barometer is a device by which the atmospheric pressure is measured.
3. The standard atmospheric pressure is the pressure required of 76 cm of Hg column or 760 mm of Hg column, which is equivalent to 1 atm.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
A barometer measures the __________ pressure.
A mercury barometer measures the __________ pressure.
The highest pressure gas of a mixture has partial pressure p, the partial pressure of other gases decreases by factor of 2n-1, the partial pressure of second gases decreases by a factor of 2, partial pressure of third gas increases by 4, and so on, if the total pressure of gas mixture is 31p/16, how many gases are present in the mixture?
In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and select the correct answer for the given blank out of thefour alternatives. When the kerosene burned, the fuel in the tank below would be __________ pressure, and __________ a small circular flame would appear in the burner. The valve had tobe opened to let more kerosene vapour to the burner and pumping resumed. With the increase in pressure, the burner flame would spread _________ a loud noise. Tolower the flame, the valve had to be _________ opened to reduce the pressure and then tightened until the desired flame size was achieved. _________ you wanted theflame to be bigger, you had to hit the piston again. Pump stoves are still in vogue. below would be __________ pressure