A deformative force per unit cross-sectional area
What is stress?
The study of liquids at rest.
What is hydrostatics?
This is the most abundant gas in the atmosphere.
What is nitrogen?
Any push or pull on an object.
What is force?
Avogadro's Number
6.022*10^23
The point beyond which a stretched substance will not return to its original length.
What is elastic limit?
The distance between the highest level of water in a closed system.
What is the water head?
This device transports air or is driven by air presure.
What is a pneumatic device?
Amount of force per unit area.
What is pressure?
This principle is concerned only with the proportionality between volume and temperature at a constant pressure.
What is Charles's Law?
The amount of deformation required to bring a material to its elastic limit.
What is resilience?
A hydraulic device functions based on this principle
What is Pascal's Principle?
This laboratory device is used to measure the pressure of a gas sample.
What is a manometer?
A tube connecting higher and lower tanks of liquid that creates a vacuum and allows liquid to flow from the higher tank to the lower tank through a tube.
What is a siphon?
This principle is true for all fluids.
What is Archimedes' Principle?
The amount of gravitational force exerted on an object.
What is weight?
The curved surface of a liquid inside a small tube is this.
What is the meniscus?
These two factors affect air pressure.
What are the amount of air and the temperature?
A chemical combination of two or more atoms.
What is a molecule?
This state of matter is the most abundant in the universe.
What is plasma?
This force results in the stretching of an object.
What is tensile?
This does not contribute to the rise of water in a small tube.
What is gravity?
If a gas inside a rigid, solid steel container is heated to 350k then this happens.
What is the pressure increases?
Digits that, in a properly stated measurement, have accurate physical meaning.
What are significant figures?
The law of liquid pressure. (The equation)
P=pgh