On Venus, a vertical column of mercury ( ) stands 0.70 m high under the planet’s…

PHYSICS · Subjective · AP · Physics 1: Algebra-based · Fluids · Fluids

Problem

On Venus, a vertical column of mercury (

\rho = 13\,600\,\text{kg}\,\text{m}^{-3}

) stands 0.70 m high under the planet’s surface gravity

g = 8.87\,\text{m}\,\text{s}^{-2}

. Calculate the gauge pressure corresponding to this column and express the result in atmospheres (

1\,\text{atm} = 1.01 \times 10^{5}\,\text{Pa}