Monday, October 6, 2014

Hydrostatic paradox

What is hydrostatic paradox? 
You might be wondering what this fancy word means, but I am pretty sure you have seen the illustration before. Hydrostatic paradox is a term commonly used to describe a phenomena where the pressure of liquids is independent of the object's size and area. In fact, the pressure only depends on the depth.

Illustration of hydrostatic paradox

No comments:

Post a Comment