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THRUST AND PRESSURE

experience that the depression caused in a mattress is smaller when a person lies flat on the mattress than when he stands vertically straight on it. The of the person is the same in both the cases and as such the force exerted on the mattress due to weight is also the same in both the cases.

Concept'

It is a matter of common

This shows that the effect of the same force on the mattress is smaller in lying position th, standing position. It is because of the fact that in lying position, the effect of the force is distributed a larger area of the mattress than in the case when the person is standing vertically on it. In the seq case the same force (i.e., the weight of person) acts over a smaller area of the mattress (i.e., the a below the feet of the person) and thus causes large depression.

ThrusL The force acting on a body perpendicular to its surface is called Thrust. Pressure' It is useful to know the thrust per unit area to feel the effect of thrust or force acting a surface. The thrust per unit area is called pressure.
Thus,
Pressure = Thrust

units of thrust and pressure. The S.I. unit of thrust is the is newton (N) and S.I. unit of thrust is also newton (N)
The S.I. unit of Dressure

same as that

of force. s.I. unit of

S'I' Unit of rhrust S.I. unit of area

S.I. unit of area is (metre)2 i.e., mz

Thus S.L unit of pressure

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= NmJ

This unit Nm-2 is also called pascal and abbreviated, as pa. Thus 1 Pascal or I pa = lNmz.

EXPERIMENT NO. 5
Aim' (a) To obseme and compare the pressure exerted by a solid iron cuboid on sand while on tts three dffirent faces; and (b) to calcwlate the pressure exerted in thrce different cases. Apparatus/lVlaterial required. A solid iron cuboid, a big rectangular tray, sand, a half metre (steel scale), a ls cm scale, a spring balance, a strong piece of thread.
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