Aquarium measurements long, wide and depth.
(a)
Find the hydrostatic pressure on the bottom of the aquarium:
Hydrostatic pressure is defined as .
Where and is depth of the water container in feet.
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Substitute and in the above formula.
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Hydrostatic pressure on the bottom of the aquarium is .
(b)
Find the hydrostatic force on the bottom of the aquarium:
Hydrostatic force is defined as .
Where is the area of the container and is hydrostatic pressure on the bottom of the container.
Bottom area of the aquarium is .
Substitute and in .
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Hydrostatic force on the bottom of the aquarium is .
(c)
Find the hydrostatic force on one end of the aquarium:
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, where is the depth of the aquarium.
Strip area is , as depth increases then also increases.
Thus, consider width as .
Hydrostatic force on one end of the aquarium is .
(a) Hydrostatic pressure on the bottom of the aquarium is .
(b) Hydrostatic force on the bottom of the aquarium is .
(c) Hydrostatic force on one end of the aquarium is .
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