An Airbus A380-800 passanger airplane is cruising at constant altitude on a straight line with a constant speed. The total surface area of the two wings is 395 m². The average speed of the air just below the wings is 248 m/s, and it is 278 m/s just above the surface of the wings. What is the mass of the airplane? The average density of the air around the airplane is pair= 1.05 kg/m³.
Fluid Pressure
The term fluid pressure is coined as, the measurement of the force per unit area of a given surface of a closed container. It is a branch of physics that helps to study the properties of fluid under various conditions of force.
Gauge Pressure
Pressure is the physical force acting per unit area on a body; the applied force is perpendicular to the surface of the object per unit area. The air around us at sea level exerts a pressure (atmospheric pressure) of about 14.7 psi but this doesn’t seem to bother anyone as the bodily fluids are constantly pushing outwards with the same force but if one swims down into the ocean a few feet below the surface one can notice the difference, there is increased pressure on the eardrum, this is due to an increase in hydrostatic pressure.
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