Consider an airplane with a total wing surface of 100 square meters. At a certain speed the difference in the air pressure below and above the wings is 4% of atmospheric pressure. Show that the lift on the airplane is 400,000 N.
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The term fluid pressure is coined as, the measurement of the force per unit area of a given surface of a closed container. It is a branch of physics that helps to study the properties of fluid under various conditions of force.
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Pressure is the physical force acting per unit area on a body; the applied force is perpendicular to the surface of the object per unit area. The air around us at sea level exerts a pressure (atmospheric pressure) of about 14.7 psi but this doesn’t seem to bother anyone as the bodily fluids are constantly pushing outwards with the same force but if one swims down into the ocean a few feet below the surface one can notice the difference, there is increased pressure on the eardrum, this is due to an increase in hydrostatic pressure.
Consider an airplane with a total wing surface of 100 square meters. At a certain speed the difference in the air pressure below and above the wings is 4% of atmospheric pressure. Show that the lift on the airplane is 400,000 N.
The surface area of the plane wing is 100square meter
The wing differ by 4% of the atmospheric pressure (0.04(1atm))
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