9TH ICSE [PHYSICS]

WORKSHEET [PRESSURE IN FLUIDS ANND ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE]

[ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE AND ITS MEASUREMENT]
[SET A]
1. What do you understand by atmospheric pressure?
2. Write the numerical value of the atmospheric pressure on the surface of the earth in pascal.
3. What physical quantity is measured in torr? How is it related to the S.I. unit of the quantity?
4. Write S.I. unit of atmospheric pressure. What is one bar?
5. Name the physical quantity which is expressed in the unit ‘atm’ state its value in pascal.
6. We do not feel uneasy even under the enormous pressure of atmosphere above as well as around us. Give a
reason.
7. Why do the animals not fell the enormous amount of atmospheric pressure?
8. Describe an experiment to demonstrate that air exerts pressure.
9. Explain the function of atmospheric pressure in sucking the soft drink from a straw.
10. How does a dropper suck the liquid when its rubber bulb is pressed? Can it suck the liquid in space?
Explain.
11. Explain the following:
(i) A balloon collapses when air is removed from it.
(ii) Water does not run out of a dropper unless its rubber bulb is pressed.
(iii) Two holes are made in a completely filled sealed tin can to take out oil from it.
12. Why a cycle tube deflates when air is removed from it?
13. Why does the liquid rise in a syringe when its piston is pulled up?
14. How is water drawn up from a well by a water pump?
15. There is no atmosphere on the surface of moon. What happens when the lid of a bottle removed on the
moon surface?
16. Name the instruments used to measure atmospheric pressure.
17. What is a barometer? How is a simple barometer constructed?
18. How does a barometer forecast the weather?
19. Explain how is the height of mercury column in the tube of a simple barometer, a measure of the
atmospheric pressure.
20. What is meant by the statement ‘the atmospheric pressure at a place is 76 cm of Hg’? state its value in Pa.
21. Illustrate with the help of a labeled diagram of a simple barometer that the atmospheric pressure at a place
is 76 cm of Hg.
22. Why is the barometric height used as a unit to express the atmospheric pressure?
23. How will you show that there is vacuum above the surface of mercury in a barometer? What name is given
to this vacuum?
24. Draw a neat diagram of Fortin’s barometer. How does it overcome the defect of simple barometer?
25. Describe the construction and working of an aneroid barometer. How this barometer is useful than the
mercury barometer?
26. Give two reasons for the use of mercury as a barometric liquid.
27. Give two reasons why water is not a suitable barometric liquid.
28. What is an aneroid barometer? Draw a neat and labeled diagram to explain its construction and working.
29. State two advantages of a barometer affected when it is taken to (i) a mine, and (ii) a hill?
30. State two uses of a barometer.
31. How does the atmospheric pressure change with altitude? Draw an approximate graph to show this
variation.
32. Why does a fountain pen leak at a high altitude?
33. Deep water fish often die in shallow water. Why?
34. Decrease of atmospheric pressure decreases the boiling point of liquid. Explain
35. Can we boil water at 0⁰C? Explain.
36. Why does nose start bleeding on high mountains?
37. What is linear decrease and non-linear decrease in atmospheric pressure?
38. What will you predict about the weather if the level of mercury in a barometric tube,
(i) Falls suddenly
(ii) Falls gradually
(iii) Rises gradually
39. What is an altimeter? State its principle. How is its scale calibrated?
40. Why do the passengers in an aircraft don’t feel the effect of low atmospheric pressure?
9TH ICSE [PHYSICS]
WORKSHEET [PRESSURE IN FLUIDS ANND ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE]
[ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE AND ITS MEASUREMENT]
[NUMERICALS]
[SET B]
1. ‘The atmospheric pressure at a place is 75 cm of Hg’. What does it mean? Express it in N m -2. Use: density of
Hg = 13.6 g cm-3, g = 9.8 m s-2.
2. Convert 1 mm of Hg into Pascal. Take density of Hg = 13.6 x 103 kg m-3 and g= 9.8 m s-2.
3. At a given place, a mercury barometer records a pressure of 0.70 m of Hg. What would be the height of water
column if mercury in barometer is replaced by water? Take density of mercury to be 13.6 x 10 3 kg m-3.
4. The upper blood pressure of a patient is 160 cm of Hg whereas the normal blood pressure should be 120 cm
of Hg. Calculate the extra pressure generated by the heart in S.I. unit. Take density of Hg = 13600 kg m -3 and
g= 9.8 m s-2.
5. A mercury barometer reads 75 cm. Now 3 cm -3 of atmospheric air is introduced into the tube. The mercury
falls to a height of 65 cm and the length of air column above the mercury is found to be 15 cm. Calculate the
cross sectional area of the barometer tube.
6. The height of mercury level in barometer on a hilly place is 68 cm. What is the atmospheric pressure at this
place?
7. Height of mercury in a barometric tube is 76 cm. what would be equivalent length of water column in the
tube?
8. At sea level, the atmospheric pressure is 1.04 x 10 5 Pa. Assuming g =10 m s -2 and density of air to be uniform
and equal to 1.3 kg m-3, find the height of the atmosphere.
9. Assuming the density of air to be 1.295 kg m -3, find the fall in barometric height in mm of Hg at a height of
107 m above the sea level. Take density of mercury = 13.6 x 10 3 kg m-3.
10. Calculate atmospheric pressure in Pascal at a place where height of mercury in barometric tube is only 70
cm. Whether this place is near to sea level or at some altitude?