9TH ICSE PHYSICS – PRESSURE

SET A
1. Define thrust. Is thrust a scalar or vector?
2. What are the SI and CGS units of thrust?
3. Derive the relationship between the SI and CGS units of thrust.
4. Define pressure. Is pressure scalar or vector?
5. What is the SI unit of pressure? Define this unit.
6. What is the CGS unit of pressure? Derive the relationship between SI and CGS units of pressure.
7. Give two units of atmospheric pressure.
8. Give relationship between the units 1atm, 1 pascal and metres of mercury column.
9. What are the factors that affect pressure?
10. How can pressure be increased?
11. Give ways of decreasing pressure.
12. Give reasons why?
a. A pointed nail penetrates the wall easily than a blunt nail.
b. We feel more pressure while standing on one leg.
c. A hit from standing ruler hurt more than a hit from flat ruler.
d. The tip of a pin is made sharp.
e. It is easier to cut with a sharp knife than with a blunt one.
f. Sleepers are laid below the rails.
13. What is a fluid?
14. By virtue of what physical quantity does a solid exert pressure?
15. How does a pressure exerted by a solid and a fluid differ?
16. Show that liquid pressure, P = h ρ g, where h is depth of liquid, ρ is density of liquid and g is gravity.
17. Write an expression for the pressure at a point inside a liquid. Explain the meaning of the symbols used.
18. What are the factors that affect pressure at a point in a liquid?
19. Give two factors on which the pressure inside a liquid does not depend on.
20. Give the five laws of liquid pressure.
21. Why is the pressure at a certain depth in seawater more than the pressure at the same depth in river water?
22. Why are the walls of a dam made thicker at the bottom?
23. Why is the water supply tank placed high?
24. Why do divers need special protective suits when diving in deep sea?
25. How does the liquid pressure on a diver change if:
a. The diver moves to the greater depth and
b. The diver moves horizontally.
26. Explain why a gas bubble released at the bottom of a lake grows in size as it rises to the surface?
27. State Pascal’s law of transmission of pressure in liquids.
28. Name two applications Pascal’s law.
29. What is the principle of a hydraulic machine? Give its mathematical representation.
30. Name and state the principle on which a hydraulic press works. Write one use of the hydraulic press.
31. Draw a simple diagram of a hydraulic jack and explain its working.
32. Explain the working of a hydraulic brake with a simple labelled diagram.
33. What is atmosphere?
34. What is meant by atmospheric pressure on the surface of the earth?
35. Give an approximate value of the atmospheric pressure on the surface of the earth.
36. What is the thrust exerted by the atmosphere on our body? What balances this thrust?
37. Why do mountaineers face a problem at the high elevation?
38. Explain an experiment to demonstrate the presence of atmospheric pressure.
39. Explain the role of atmospheric pressure in:
 a. sucking a drink with a straw.
b. filling a syringe with a liquid.
c. filling of ink in the fountain pen.
d. the working of rubber suckers.
e. working of a siphon system.
f. taking out oil from sealed all can.
g. a balloon collapses when air is removed from it.
h. water does not run out of a dropper unless its rubber bulb is pressed.
40. What is a barometer? List three types of barometer.
41. Who designed the simple barometer?
42. Explain how the height of mercury column in the tube of a simple barometer is a measure of the atmospheric
pressure.
43. What is meant by the statement ‘the atmospheric pressure at a place is 76 cm of Hg’? state its value in Pa.
44. Illustrate with the help of a labelled diagram of a simple barometer that the atmospheric pressure at a place is 76
cm of Hg.
45. What is meant by barometric height?
46. What is the Torricellian vacuum?
47. What is the barometric height at normal temperature and pressure?
48. What are the factors that affect barometric height?
49. State how a barometer affected when it is taken to (i) a mine, and (ii) a hill.
50. What are the advantages of using mercury as the barometric fluid?
51. What are the disadvantages of using water as the barometric fluid?
52. List two factors due to which the atmospheric pressure decreases with altitude.
53. Why does breathing become difficult in the nose starts to bleed at high altitudes?
54. What weather forecast can be made if:
a. The barometric height of a place suddenly falls.
b. The barometric height gradually falls.
c. There is a gradual fall in the barometric height.
d. There is a sudden rise in barometric height.
e. There is no abrupt change in barometric height.
55. What is meant by an altimeter?
9TH ICSE PHYSICS – PRESSURE

SET B
1. A boy weighing 60 kgf is wearing shoes with heel of area of cross section 20 cm 2, while a girl
weighing 45 kgf is wearing sandals with heel of area of cross section 1.5 cm 2. Compare the
pressure exerted on ground by their heels when they stand on the heel of one foot.
2. Calculate the pressure due to a water column of height 100m.
(Take g = 10 m s-2 and density of water = 103 kg m-3)
3. At what depth below the surface of water will pressure be equal to twice the atmospheric pressure? The
atmospheric pressure is 10 N cm-2, density of water is 103 kg m-3 and g = 9.8 ms-2.
4. A hammer exerts a force of 1.5 N on each of the two nails A and B. The area of cross section of tip of nail A is 2
mm2 while that of nail B is 6 mm2. Calculate the pressure on each nail in pascal.
5. A block of iron of mass 7.5 kg and of dimensions 12 cm × 8 cm × 10 cm is kept on a tabletop on its base of side 12
cm × 8 cm. Calculate: (a) thrust and (b) pressure exerted on the tabletop. Take 1 kgf = 10 N.
6. A vessel contains water up to a height of 1.5 m. Taking the density of water10 3 kg m-3, acceleration due to gravity
9.8 m s-2 and area of base of vessel 10 cm2, calculate: (a) the pressure and (b) the thrust, at the base of vessel.
7. The area of base of a cylindrical vessel is 300 cm2. Water (density = 1000 kg m-3) is poured into it up to a depth of
6 cm. Calculate: (a) the pressure and (b) the thrust of water on the base. (g = 10 m s -2).
8. A cube of each side 5 cm is placed inside a liquid. The pressure at the centre of one face of cube is 10 Pa.
Calculate the thrust exerted by the liquid on this face.
9. A square plate of side 10 m is placed horizontally1 m below the surface of water. The atmospheric pressure is
1.013 ×10 5 N m-2. Calculate the total thrust on the plate. (Density of water ρ = 10 3 kg m-3, g= 9.8 m s-2)
10. The pressure of water on the ground floor is 40,000 Pa and on the first floor is 10,000 Pa. Find the height of the
first floor. (Take: density of water = 1000 kg m -3, g = 10 m s-2)
11. A simple U tube contains mercury to the same level in both of its arms. If water is poured to a height of 13.6 cm
in one arm, how much will be the rise in mercury level in the other arm?
12. In hydraulic machine, a force of 2 N is applied on the piston of area of cross section 10 cm 2. What force is
obtained on its piston of area of cross section 100 cm 2?
13. What should be the ratio of area of cross section of master cylinder and wheel cylinder of a hydraulic brake so
that a force of 15 N can be obtained at each of its brake show by exerting a force of 0.5 N on the pedal?
14. An air bubble rises from the bottom of a lake of depth 10.34 m to its surface. Compare the pressure on bubble at
the bottom to that on surface. (Atmospheric pressure =0.76 m of Hg, density of Hg = 13.6 × 10 3 kg m -3).
15. In fig 1, a tube of length 200 cm filled with a liquid of density 1.90 × 10 3 kg m-3 is placed inclined with the vertical
such that the level A of liquid in the tube is at a vertical height 100 cm from its lower point C. There is a point B in
the tube below the point A at a vertical depth 60 cm.
(a) Calculate the pressure at points
i. A
ii. B and
iii. C
(b) What will be the pressure at point C when the tube is made vertical? Take
atmospheric pressure = 1.013 × 105 N m-2.

16. Fig. 2 shows a cube of each side 15 cm immersed in a tube containing water of
density 103 kg m-3 such that its top surface is 20 cm below the free surface of
water.
Calculate:
(i) The pressure at the top of cube,
(ii) The pressure at the bottom of cube,
(iii) The resultant pressure on cube.
 (iv) The resultant thrust on cube.
Take atmospheric pressure = 105 Pa and g = 9.8 N kg-1.
17. In hydraulic machine, the pistons are of area of cross section in the ratio 1:10. What force is needed on the
narrow piston to overcome a force of 100N on the wider piston?
18. The area of cross section of press plunger of a hydraulic press id 4 m 2. It is required to overcome a resistive load
of 400 kgf on it. Calculate the force required on the pump plunger if the area of cross section of the pump
plunger is 0.01 m2.
19. A force of 50 kgf is applied to the smaller piston of a hydraulic machine. Neglecting friction, find the force
exerted on te large piston, if the diameters of the pistons are 5 cm and 25 cm respectively.
20. Two cylindrical vessels fitted with pistons A and B of area of cross section 8 cm 2 and 320 cm2 respectively, are
joined at their bottom by a tube and they are completely filled with water. When a mass of 4 kg is placed on
piston A, find: (i) the pressure on piston A, (ii) the pressure on piston B, and (iii) the thrust on piston B.
21. ‘The atmospheric pressure at a place is 75 cm of Hg’. What does it mean? Express it in N m -2. Use: density of Hg
= 13.6 g cm-3, g = 9.8 m s-2.
22. Convert 1 mm of Hg into Pascal. Take density of Hg = 13.6 x 103 kg m -3 and g= 9.8 m s-2.
23. At a given place, a mercury barometer records a pressure of 0.70 m of Hg. What would be the height of water
column if mercury in barometer is replaced by water? Take density of mercury to be 13.6 x 103 kg m-3.
24. The upper blood pressure of a patient is 160 cm of Hg whereas the normal blood pressure should be 120 cm of
Hg. Calculate the extra pressure generated by the heart in S.I. unit. Take density of Hg = 13600 kg m -3 and g= 9.8
m s-2.
25. A mercury barometer reads 75 cm. Now 3 cm -3 of atmospheric air is introduced into the tube. The mercury falls
to a height of 65 cm and the length of air column above the mercury is found to be 15 cm. Calculate the cross-
sectional area of the barometer tube.
26. The height of mercury level in barometer on a hilly place is 68 cm. What is the atmospheric pressure at this
place?
27. Height of mercury in a barometric tube is 76 cm. what would be equivalent length of water column in the tube?
28. At sea level, the atmospheric pressure is 1.04 x 105 Pa. Assuming g =10 m s -2 and density of air to be uniform
and equal to 1.3 kg m-3, find the height of the atmosphere.
29. Assuming the density of air to be 1.295 kg m -3, find the fall in barometric height in mm of Hg at a height of 107 m
above the sea level. Take density of mercury = 13.6 x 10 3 kg m-3.
30. Calculate atmospheric pressure in Pascal at a place where height of mercury in barometric tube is only 70 cm.
Whether this place is near to sea level or at some altitude?