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    Pressure Exerted by Liquids

    Last Updated on April 6, 2023 By Mrs Shilpi Nagpal

    Question 1 How does the pressure of a liquid depends on


    its depth. Explain?

    Question 2 What conclusion do you get from the


    observation that a fountain of water is created at the leaking
    joint of pipes of the main water supply line?

    Question 3 Liquids exert pressure on the wall of contain.


    Explain?

    Question 4 Liquid exert pressure on the bottom of the


    container. Explain?

    Question 5  liquid exerts pressure on the walls of its


    container. Explain?

    Question 6 liquid exerts equal pressure at the same depth.


    Explain?

    All the liquids exert pressure on the base or bottom and


    walls of their container. All the liquid have weight.

    When we pour liquid into a vessel, then the weight of liquid


    pushes down on the base of the vessel producing a
    pressure.

    The liquid exerts pressure on the base of the vessel.

    The pressure exerted by a liquid changes with depth in the


    liquid. The pressure exerted by a liquid increases with
    increasing depth inside the liquid. The pressure exerted by
    a liquid is small just under the surface of the liquid. But as
    we go we deeper in a liquid the pressure of liquid increases.
    As the depth of liquid increases the weight of liquid column
    pushing down from above increases and hence the
    pressure also increases.

    Activity: The pressure of liquid increases with depth

    A tall vessel has short and thin tubes tted at di erent


    depth from the top of vessel. The three tubes are of equal
    diameters and corks are tted into them. The vessel is lled
    with water and then all the corks are removed quickly. On
    removing the corks the water from uppermost tube is found
    to travel the shortest distance from the base of the vessel,
    the water from middle tube  goes a little farther away
    whereas water from the lowermost shoots out farthest all.
    The depth of water near uppermost tube is small so the
    water comes out from uppermost tube with smaller
    pressure and falls near the bottom of the vessel. The depth
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    of water near middle tube is greater so the water comes out
    with greater pressure from middle tube and falls farther
    away from the base of vessel. The depth of water near
    lowermost tube is the greatest so the water comes out of
    lowermost tube with the greatest pressure and goes
    farthest from the vessel. As the depth of water increases
    the pressure of water gradually increases.

    The greater the depth of a point in a liquid, the greater is


    the pressure.

    Liquids also exert pressure on the walls of the vessel in


    which they are stored. The sideways pressure exerted by
    liquids also increases with the depth of the liquid. The
    sideways pressure of a liquid on walls of a vessel is almost
    zero at its surface. As the depth of liquid increases the
    sideways pressure on the walls of the vessel gradually
    increases and it becomes maximum near the bottom of the
    vessel.

    The wall of a dam is made thicker at the bottom so as to


    tolerate very high sideways pressure exerted by deep water
    stored in the reservoir of dam.

    Activity : Liquid exert pressure on the bottom of its


    container which depends on the height of its column

    Take a transparent plastic pipe. Also take a thin sheet of a


    rubber. Stretch the thin rubber sheet and tie it tightly over
    one end of the plastic pipe. The plastic pipe is the container
    which has stretchable bottom made of a thin rubber sheet.
    keeping the pipe vertical, let us pour some water in the pipe
    from the top .We will nd that on pouring water in the pipe,
    the rubber sheets tied to its bottom stretches and bulges
    out. The bulging out of rubber sheet demonstrates that the
    water poured in pipe exerts a pressure on the bottom of its
    container. This is because the bottom of container is made
    of a exible, thin rubber sheet which can get stretched by
    the pressure exerted by water to form a buldge. Now pour
    some water in the plastic pipe so that height of water
    column in the pipe increases. As the height of water column
    increases the bulge in the rubber sheet also increases
    showing that the pressure of water on the bottom of its
    container has increased. Greater the height of water column
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    in the pipe greater will be the bulge in its rubber sheet
    bottom.

    We conclude that:

    (1) A liquid exerts pressure on the bottom of its container.

    (2) The pressure exerted by a liquid depends on the height


    of the liquid column.

    Activity: A liquid exerts pressure on the walls of its


    container

    Take a plastic bottle. Fix a small glass tube above the


    bottom of the plastic bottle. We should seal the joint of
    glass tube with plastic bottle by using molten wax so that
    water does not leak from the joint. Tie a thin sheet of rubber
    tightly on the open end of glass tube. Now ll half of plastic
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    bottle with water. On lling water, the rubber sheet tied to
    the mouth of glass tube gets stretched and bulges out. The
    bulging out of rubber sheet tied to the glass tube xed in
    the wall of plastic bottle demonstrates that water present in
    plastic bottle exerts pressure on the walls of the bottle. It is
    the sideways pressure exerted by water which in ates the
    thin rubber sheet forming a buldge. If we pour more water
    in the plastic bottle to increase depth, we will see that the
    bulge in the rubber sheet increases. This indicates that the
    pressure exerted by water increases with increasing depth.

    (1) The pressure exerted by a liquid on the walls of


    container increases with increasing depth.

    (2) A liquid exerts pressure on the walls of its container.

    Activity: A liquid exerts equal pressure at the same


    depth

    Take a plastic bottle. Make 2 small holes of equal size on


    the two opposite sides of the plastic bottle some distance
    above the bottom of the bottle. The holes should be at
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    exactly the same height from the bottom of the plastic
    bottle. Now ll the bottle with water. The two jets of water
    coming out of the two holes fall at the same distance away
    from the base on its either side. The two jets of water can
    fall at equal distance on the two sides of the bottle only if
     the pressure of water at the depth of 2 holes in the bottle is
    equal.

    We conclude that

    (1) A liquid exerts pressure on the walls of its container.

    (2) A liquid exerts equal pressure at the same depth.

    The formation of fountains of water from the leaking pipes


    of water supply pipeline tells us that water exerts pressure
    on the walls of its container.
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