Hydraulic Machine Exerting Pressure

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Illustration of a hydraulic machine. “A principle known as Pascal’s Law states that pressure exerted on a liquid in a closed vessel is transmitted equally and undiminished in all directions.” If a, A, p, and P respectively represent the areas and pressures, then the following proportion holds: a:A = p:P.

Keywords

lever, fulcrum, scale, weight, balance, levers, force, weights, ratio, proportions, ratios, proportion problems

Galleries

Fluid Mechanics, Proportions, Hydraulic Presses

Source

Claude Irwin Palmer Practical Mathematics for Home Study (New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1919)

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