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Forces and Pressure Part 4

1. The document describes a hydraulic system with a piston at the user's end with an area of 420 cm^2 and a piston at the lifting end with an area of 4.0 cm^2. 2. To lift a 1 tonne (1000 kg) car, the force required at the user's end is 1000 kg * 10 N/kg / (420 cm^2 / 4.0 cm^2) = 2400 N. 3. The greater force amplification achieved by the hydraulic system allows a smaller force to be applied to lift a larger load.

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Forces and Pressure Part 4

1. The document describes a hydraulic system with a piston at the user's end with an area of 420 cm^2 and a piston at the lifting end with an area of 4.0 cm^2. 2. To lift a 1 tonne (1000 kg) car, the force required at the user's end is 1000 kg * 10 N/kg / (420 cm^2 / 4.0 cm^2) = 2400 N. 3. The greater force amplification achieved by the hydraulic system allows a smaller force to be applied to lift a larger load.

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Part 4: Applying Pascal’s Principle 2.

A hydraulic system consists of a piston with a surface area of


420 cm2 at the user’s end and another piston of surface area
4.0 cm2 piston at the lifting end. How much force needs to be
1. A hydraulic system has an input cylinder of diameter 6 cm applied to lift a 1 tonne car?
and an output cylinder of diameter 18 cm.

a) Assuming 100% efficiency, find the force exerted by the


output piston when a force of 12 N is applied to the input
piston
b) If the input piston is moved through 8 cm, how far is the
output piston moved?
3. Diagram shows a hydraulic system. The small piston A has a 4. Diagram shows a pipe with one end bigger than the other.
cross-sectional area of 2 cm2 and the big piston B has a cross- The pipe is filled with oil and two airtight pistons A and B
sectional area of 50cm2. [use g = 10 N kg-1.] which are fixed at both ends of the pipe. If piston A is pushed
by a force of 100 N,

a) What is the pressure exerted on the oil?


a) When a mass of 4.0 kg is placed on piston A, what is the b) What is the force acting on piston B?
pressure exerted on piston A in N cm-2?
b) What is the pressure exerted on piston B?
c) Determine the mass of load W that can be lifted by piston B?
5. Diagram 3 shows two syringes connected to a small tube with 6. Diagram shows a hydraulic system,
a type of liquid filled into it. If a force of 15 N is exerted on
the bigger piston, what is the force f required to exert on the
smaller piston such that it does not move at all?

a) When a force of 40 N is exerted on piston A, what is


pressure produced at piston A?
b) Determine the mass of Q that can be lifted at piston B.
c) If piston A moves down by a distance of 1,5 m, what is the
distance that piston B will move up?
d) If mass Q is changed to a load of mass 210 kg, what is the
mass that is needed to exert on piston A to support the load at
piston B?

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