Pitanja za kapitel 7

1. POWER AND PRESSURE ¢

In this task you will be trained to calculate pressure.
A A 100 g weight is suspended in a spring. The spring is stretched because of
it is influenced by a force. Study the picture and answer the following questions:
1. What is called the force that stretches the feather?
2. How big is the force that stretches the feather?
B Instead of the earth's attraction, you often say gravity or
weight. How much weight has
1. A book with the mass 700 g?
2. a stone with the mass 2 kg?
3. A letter weighing 50 g?
C The image to the right shows how to measure the weight of a key bundle with one
dynamometer. Study the picture and answer the following questions:
1. In what unit is a dynamometer graduated?
2. How much mass does the key have, if the dynamometer shows 1.5 N?
3. What is the keychain weight if the dynamometer shows 0.65 N?
D A weight weighing 10 kg is on a foam rubber disc. Because of weight
gravity is affected by a force. Study the pictures below and
answer the following questions:
1. How much power affects the foam rubber?
2. On the right image, a thin cardboard board is placed between the weight
and foam rubber. This causes the foam rubber to squeeze less together.

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Pressure means how much power is on a certain area, for example a square centimeter
(1 cm2). If you figure out how big the pressure is, divide the power with
area.
pressure =
force
area
p=
F
A
An iron rod with a weight of 22 N lies on a table. Use the image and the formula and
answer the following questions:
1. How big is the force against the table?
2. How big is the pressure, if the rod's bottom area has the area 10 cm2?
F Jenny has a weight of 480 N. The bottom area of her shoes is a total of 400 cm2.
Use the formula and answer the questions.
1. How big is Jenny's pressure on the floor?
2. How big is Jenny's pressure on a leg?
3. How much does Jenny weigh?
G Three identical blocks are placed on a table in different ways as shown.
ABC
1. Which block affects the table with the greatest force?
2. Which block achieves the highest pressure?
3. Why?
H Pressure can be measured in different units. A common unit is pascal (Pa) which is the
same
as newton per square meter. 1 Pa = 1 N / m2.
1. A container has a base area of 5 m2. The container weighs with its contents
800 kg. How big is the pressure against the substrate expressed in pascal?
2. A box weighing 50 kg is on the floor. The bottom of the box is 0.5 m2.
How big is the pressure on the floor expressed in pascal?