Gage Pressure vs Absolute Pressure | Pressurized Tank with U-Tube Manometer
Three Goals: 1. Find Pressure Gage readings in the tank. 2. Is it Gauge or Gage? 3. Find the height of mercury in the u-tube manometer.
There is also a mini-lecture explaining the difference between gage pressure (also called gauge pressure) and vacuum pressure and atmospheric pressure.
This pressurized tank with a u-tube manometer example problem falls in the Fluid Statics category of your Fluid Mechanics course, and is closely related to forces on submerged surfaces and buoyancy which are likely the two topics you will cover next in your course.
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TIMECODES
0:00 Pressure Gage Readings?
2:48 Gauge or Gage?
4:30 U-Tube Manometer