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I want to calculate the pressure acting on the wall; it is 250 PSI at the base? What would the average PSI be? Thanks again for the help.

Some of the math above is wrong, but the formula I am using is: where my integral is from 0 to 560.

Hi, I'm trying to figure out the pressure that seawater would exert against a vertical surface (on average) over a large area but I am messing up somewhere. The height of the rectangle is 560 ft and the length is 20 miles, or 105,600 ft, giving an area of 2.12 mi². The weight of the water in...