I can’t seem to wrap my head around the term pressure.
Vehicle tyres use air pressure, toilets faucets etc use pressure (presumably water pressure),
pressing onto something applies pressure, our blood has pressure, temperature is also affected by “pressure”.
I know there are various types of pressure, and I can’t think of any more examples at the moment, but my point is “pressure” sounds like a very arbitrary or vague umbrella term to me.
Help me make sense of it?
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Pressure is basically any force that interacts with an object, that “presses” on it perpendicularly. The formula for pressure is P = F/A, where P is pressure, F is Force and A is area. Pressure will increase as the area decreases or the force increases.
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