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ECH 152A, Fall 2017: Homework 1

This document contains 3 homework problems from an ECH 152A Fall 2017 class. Problem 1 asks to identify the fundamental and derived SI units for electric current, electric power, electric charge, resistance, and voltage. Problem 2 provides measurements from a mercury manometer and asks to calculate the absolute pressure and how it would change with gravity. Problem 3 asks to estimate the size and weight of a mercury manometer instrument designed by Amagat that could measure up to 400 bar based on assuming a 1 cm diameter mercury column.

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ECH 152A, Fall 2017: Homework 1

This document contains 3 homework problems from an ECH 152A Fall 2017 class. Problem 1 asks to identify the fundamental and derived SI units for electric current, electric power, electric charge, resistance, and voltage. Problem 2 provides measurements from a mercury manometer and asks to calculate the absolute pressure and how it would change with gravity. Problem 3 asks to estimate the size and weight of a mercury manometer instrument designed by Amagat that could measure up to 400 bar based on assuming a 1 cm diameter mercury column.

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ECH 152A, Fall 2017

Homework 1

Problem 1 UNITS
Electric current is the fundamental SI dimension with unit Ampere.
For the following quantities combine fundamental SI units to obtain derived SI units
Electric power, electric charge, resistance, and voltage.

Problem 2
A mercury manometer at 25 oC gives a reading of 71.38 cm at a point where the local
acceleration of gravity is 9.82 ms ̶ 2. The atmospheric pressure is 100.78 kPa. What is the
absolute pressure being measured? (ρHg(25 oC) = 13.534 gcm ̶ 3. How does it change with
the local acceleration of gravity?

Problem 3
The first measurements of the properties of high-pressure gases were made by Amagat
in France in the 1860s. He worked in a mine shaft using a mercury manometer for
pressures up to 400 bar (approx 40 MPa). (He actually later improved his design to go to
3200 bar.) Estimate the size of the instrument needed (for 400 bar). If you assume the
diameter of the mercury column was 1 cm, what was the weight of the instrument (only
the mercury)?

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