In this Hump Day Hydraulics episode, Josh Cosford and Paul Heney give a rundown on the basics of pressure.
Pressure is force over a predetermined area. We all typically use similar units, such as pounds per square inch (PSI) or Newtons per square metre (Pa), but pressure isn’t confined for use in the fluid power industry alone. Pressure exists everywhere at all times, and even the most remote location in outer space will still have a few atoms of matter loitering around to ruin a perfect vacuum.
And as Blaise Pascal said, the nature of fluid pressure is “when there is an increase in pressure at any point in a confined fluid, there is an equal increase at every other point in the container.”
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