Concept — Force exerted per unit area.
Present in chapters
00·09
Linked atoms
31 linked atoms.
00 Physical quantities, estimation, equilibrium
- Worked example — The column of air pressing on our feet
- Worked example — Fruit press
- Worked example — Pressure of the heart
- Archimedes’ principle
- Stevin’s law
- Manometer and barometer
- Pressure
- Pascal’s principle
- Problem — Derivation of Stevin’s law
- Problem — The mass of the atmosphere
- Bernoulli’s theorem
09 Kinetic theory of gases
- Derivation of the ideal gas law
- The work of the atmosphere
- Work of the gas on the piston
- Microscopic origin of pressure
- Problem — Isothermal barometric distribution
- Problem — Sci-fi physics: Boltzmann constant doubled
- Problem — Van der Waals isotherm below T_c
- Problem — Boyle’s law
- Problem — Tyre on the motorway
- Problem — Pressure of an ideal gas
- Problem — Pressure and molecular collisions
- Problem — Pressure on a paper cone
- Problem — Ranking pressures by temperature
- Problem — Estimating collisions per second on the hand
- Problem — Estimating collisions on a square centimetre
- Fermi estimate: collisions on the skin
- Problem — Temperature that doubles the pressure
- Problem — True or false on ideal gas and speed
- Problem — True or false on gas properties