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- From: schmasey@leland.Stanford.EDU (Casey Carlton O'Hara)
- Subject: Re: Deep-sea Diving on Europa
- Message-ID: <1992Aug17.031001.22412@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News)
- Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
- References: <1992Aug15.073439.25744@news.iastate.edu> <1992Aug16.015343.28998@leland.Stanford.EDU> <1992Aug16.084155.13980@cco.caltech.edu>
- Date: Mon, 17 Aug 92 03:10:01 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug16.084155.13980@cco.caltech.edu> jafoust@cco.caltech.edu (Jeffrey Alan Foust) writes:
- >In article <1992Aug16.015343.28998@leland.Stanford.EDU> schmasey@leland.Stanford.EDU (Casey Carlton O'Hara) writes:
- >>
- >>The formula for hydrostatic pressure (the pressure exerted by a fluid
- >>due to the weight of the fluid above it) is something like:
- >> p(h) = p(a) + d*g*h
- >>where p(h) is pressure at depth h, p(a) is atmospheric pressure, d is
- >>depth below surface, and g is acceleration due to gravity.
- >
- >It looks like you've got some terms confused: you have both d and h
- >representing depth below the surface, but no term for the density of the
- >fluid.
-
- Whoops. Sure enough, I screwed up in my variables. There's no way to
- type a rho out on this computer, so I decided to use "d" for density,
- when I originally had it as depth. Then I changed depth to "h" for
- height, thus confusing the hell out of myself, and probably several others.
-
- Sorry!
-
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