2B20.40 - Pascal Vases

See paragraph one in the procedure section
Code Number:
2B20.40
Demo Title:
Pascal Vases
Condition:
Excellent
Principle:
Pascal's Law
Area of Study:
Heat & Fluids
Equipment:
Pascal vases, Colored water.
Procedure:

Add water to the vases as necessary.

References:
  • Panagiotis Koumaras and Theodoros Pierratos, "How Much Does a Half-Kilogram of Water “Weigh”?", TPT, Vol. 53, #3, March 2015, p. 175. 
  • R.G. Newburgh, " Capacitors, Water Bottles, and Kirchoff's Loop Rule",  TPT, Vol.  31, # 1, p. 16, January 1993.
  • A. John Mallinckrodt, "Time Scale", TPT, Vol. 31, # 6, Sept. 1993, p. 325. 
  • Raymond P. Mayer and John R. Jeffries, "Capacitor - Hydraulic Analogy", TPT, Vol. 31, # 5, May 1993, p. 260.
  • Thomas B. Greenslade, Jr., "The Hydrostatic Paradox", TPT, Vol. 16, # 4, Apr. 1978, p. 228.
  • Thomas B. Greenslade, Jr., "Pascal's Vases", AJP, Vol. 75, # 10, p. 915, Oct. 2007.
  • Thomas B. Greenslade, Jr., "Liquid Level Device (Photo)", AJP, Vol. 71, # 1, Jan. 2003, p. 90.
  • R. L. Kernell, "Simplified Hydrostatic Paradox", AJP, Vol. 53, #11, Nov. 1985, p. 1106.
  • Fa- 3:  Freier and Anderson,  A Demonstration Handbook for Physics. 
  • "Hydrostatic Instrument for Showing the Rise of Water to Its Level, and Other Experiments", Pike's Illustrated Catalogue of Scientific & Medical Instruments, 1984, p. 235.
  • The Queen Catalogues Vol. II, Catalogue of Physical Instruments, No. 4163, p. 20.




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