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Pressure

Ngā Whāinga Ako 🔗

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  1. Recap forces
  2. Explain force and pressure in terms of everyday situations. Use $P = F/A$.

Mahi Tuatahi 🔗

  1. Calculate the net force acting upon these objects:

  1. What does an unbalanced force do to the motion of an object?

Whakatika Rua 🔗

It causes the object to accelerate (or de-accelerate).

We know this because of the equation

$$ \begin{aligned} force &= mass\times acceleration \cr F &= m \times a \end{aligned} $$


Pātai Toru 🔗

For the followig equation give the name and unit for each variable in the equation.

$$ \begin{aligned} & F = m \times a \end{aligned} $$


Whakatika Toru 🔗


Pātai Whā 🔗


Pātai Rima 🔗

The most classic case of pressure is sharpening a knife. Why do we sharpen knives? What does sharpening a knife change about the knife?


Pressure / Pēhanga 🔗

The amount of force per square meter

$$ \begin{aligned} pressure &= \frac{force}{area} \cr P &= \frac{F}{A} \end{aligned} $$


$$ \begin{aligned} P &= \frac{F}{A} \cr P &= \frac{Newtons}{m^{2}} \end{aligned} $$


Calculating Pressure 🔗

$$ \begin{aligned} P = \frac{F}{A} \end{aligned} $$

  1. Calculate the pressure created by a force of $3N$ with an area of $0.5m^{2}$
  2. Calculate the area used by a force of $3N$ with pressure $7Pa$
  3. Calculate the force created by a pressure of $5Nm^{-2}$ with an area of $0.125m^{2}$

Whakatika Tahi 🔗

$$ \begin{aligned} F&=3N, A=0.5m^{-2}, P=? \cr P &= \frac{F}{A} \cr P &= \frac{3}{0.5} \cr P &= 6Nm^{-2} = 6Pa \end{aligned} $$


Whakatika Rua 🔗

$$ \begin{aligned} F&=3N, P=7Pa, A=? \cr P &= \frac{F}{A} \cr A &= \frac{F}{P} \cr A &= \frac{3}{7} \cr A &= 0.43m^{-2} \end{aligned} $$


Whakatika Toru 🔗

$$ \begin{aligned} P&=5Nm^{-2}, A=0.125m^{-2}, F=? \cr P &= \frac{F}{A} \cr F &= PA \cr F &= 5 \times 0.125 \cr F &= 0.625N \end{aligned} $$


Pressure Whakamātau 🔗

Open Google Classroom and find the Pressure Whakamātau document.


Mahi Tuatahi (2018 Exam) 🔗

Jacob bikes down The Flying Nun. He and his bike have a mass of $82kg$ and he accelerates at $0.8ms^{-2}$.

  1. Calculate the net force acting upon Jacob and his bike to cause this acceleration
  2. Draw a force diagram showing the forces acting upon Jacob as he accelerates
  3. Describe the size and direction of the forces compared to each other (horizontal and vertical)

Exam Question (2018) 🔗

Giovanni is running a 100m sprint. Each of his feet have a surface area of $200cm^{2}$ ($0.0200m^{2}$), which sink into the track. Together, his feet exert a pressure of $13000Pa$. Calculate Giovanni’s weight.


Whakatika 🔗

Because weight is a force, we know that we are looking for $F$.

$$ \begin{aligned} P &= 13000Pa \cr A &= 0.02m^{2} \times 2 = 0.04m^{2} \cr F &= P \times A \cr F &= 13000 \times 0.04 \cr F &= 520N \end{aligned} $$