Marcos asked me today about the compressibility of water. Indeed, liquid water is not incompressible, only nearly incompressible. The CRC provides a table of density as a function of temperature. You would expect something similar at varying pressures, e.g., at different levels in the ocean.
Posted by torque at January 4, 2005 1:27 PM | TrackBackSay you have an inground swimming pool and an ice cap 12 inches thick forms on the top in the winter. Assume that the pool was filled to the underside of the coping, which protrudes inside the pool, thus creating a "lock" preventing the ice cap from floating upward as the ice thickens.
How does one compute the pressure increase inside the pool below the ice cap? I see every winter pools that are damaged by this phenomenon but never had to actually compute the pressure. Would you please point me in the right direction?
Thanks,
Nick C.
Posted by: nick c at February 14, 2005 1:12 PMstudent of enviromental health
Posted by: mmh at June 8, 2005 12:18 AMGood job!
Posted by: Markus at December 11, 2006 11:28 AMGood job!
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