An astronaut is working outside the International Space Station where the atmospheric pressure is essentially zero The pressure gauge on her air tank reads 6 90 x 10 6 Pa What force does the air inside the tank exert on the flat end of the cylindrical tank, a disk 0 150 m in diameter Strategy We ca...

By rearranging the definition of pressure to solve for force we see that Here th ...

An astronaut is working outside the International Space Station where the atmospheric pressure is essentially zero. The

Question:

An astronaut is working outside the International Space Station where the atmospheric pressure is essentially zero. The pressure gauge on her air tank reads 6.90 x 10⁶ Pa. What force does the air inside the tank exert on the flat end of the cylindrical tank, a disk 0.150 m in diameter?

Strategy

We can find the force exerted from the definition of pressure given in provided we can find the area A acted upon.