PRESSURE

Science grade 8
Learning objectives
1. Describe the concept of pressure
2. Analyze the factors that affect pressure in solid
3. Calculate the pressure exerted on any object.
4. Analyze the pressure in liquid with certain depth
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What factors that affect the pressure in solid?
1st EXPERIMENT
1. Set the coins and the clays as shown in the picture.
2. Push coin A with greater effort than coin B
3. See the result on the clays
What factors that affect the pressure in solid?

The bigger the effort force,

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What factors that affect the pressure in solid?
2nd EXPERIMENT
1. Set the coins and clays as shown in the picture.
2. Try to push both coins with the similar amount of effort force
3. See the result on the clays
What factors that affect the pressure in solid?

The bigger the surface area,

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What factors that affect the pressure in solid?
1. Force is ____________________________to pressure
2. Surface area is _____________________________to pressure
3. Mathematically, can be written as:
𝑃𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑒 =
Questions:
1. Calculate the pressure on a man’s foot when a woman who weighs 520 N
steps on his foot with her heel which has an area of 0.001 m2 with all of her
weight.
2. Calculate the pressure exerted on the floor when an elephant with mass 240
kg stands on one foot which has an area of 4000 cm2.
3. A box with a length 20 cm, width 10 cm and a height 30 cm is put on the table
as shown in the figure below. The mass of the box is 5 kg. Calculate the
pressure exerted on the table by the box.
Pressure in liquid
What factors affect the pressure in liquid?
Density of
liquid

Height of Gravity
liquid/depth acceleration

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Hydrostatic Pressure

P=ρgh
with
ρ: density of liquid (kg/m3)
g: gravity acceleration (N/kg)
h: depth (m)
P: pressure (N/m2 or Pa)
Question
A tank with a length 5 m, width 3 m and a depth 2 m
is filled with a liquid of density 800 kg/m3
a. Calculate the pressure at the bottom of the tank
due to the liquid.
b. Calculate the force acting on the bottom of the
tank due to that pressure.
 Does pressure exerted by the
Group Discussion water at the lowest part of the
containers all the same?