Eli5: If water can’t be compressed under normal conditions, then how does water pressure work?
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So realistically water CAN be compressed, just not well. It’s so little they basically just say it can’t be compressed because it’s so small its not worth mentioning. So how does water pressure work? It works because water CAN’T be compressed really! If water was compressed like air then it wouldn’t come out of the pipe as easily as you’d need to shove much more water in it to push it out.
The pressure of something coming out of lets say like a tube isn’t because it can be compressed. It’s because it is being pushed through. You’d just have to push more to get the same amount of pressure if it was air vs water because the air could be compressed.
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