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What is Pascal’s Barrel? Give me a brief explanation about it?

What is Pascal’s Barrel?
Give me a brief explanation about it?

Grade:8

2 Answers

Satyam kumar
40 Points
4 years ago
Pascal's barrel is the name of a hydrostatics experiment allegedly performed by Blaise Pascal in 1646.  When water was poured into the vertical tube, the increase in hydrostatic pressure caused the barrel to burst.
 
If a U-tube is filled with water and pistons are placed at each end, pressure exerted against the left piston will be transmitted throughout the liquid and against the bottom of the right piston. (The pistons are simply "plugs" that can slide freely but snugly inside the tube.) The pressure that the left piston exerts against the water will be exactly equal to the pressure the water exerts against the right piston. Suppose the tube on the right side is made wider and a piston of a larger area is used; for example, the piston on the right has 50 times the area of the piston on the left. If a 1 N load is placed on the left piston, an additional pressure due to the weight of the load is transmitted throughout the liquid and up against the larger piston. The difference between force and pressure is important: the additional pressure is exerted against the entire area of the larger piston. Since there is 50 times the area, 50 times as much force is exerted on the larger piston. Thus, the larger piston will support a 50 N load - fifty times the load on the smaller piston
 
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Arun
25750 Points
4 years ago
Pascal's barrel is the name of a hydrostatics experiment allegedly performed by Blaise Pascal in 1646. In the experiment, Pascal supposedly inserted a long vertical tube into a barrel filled with water. When water was poured into the vertical tube, the increase in hydrostatic pressure caused the barrel to burst

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