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So how can you explain that pressure in terms of the weight of the air above it? Since now the (hypothetical) incompressible vessel is carrying all the weight. Ever since i was taught the concept of pressure I've had trouble with it. On the one hand i imagine it as a force passed on through a...

Wow, thanks for the replies, i pretty much thought this topic was dead. So if i understand it correctly, the point that i was missing, was that no vessel is truly incompressible and because of that the vessel "transfers" the weight of the air above to the air inside the vessel, which causes a...

Hey all, I have a question concerning atmospheric pressure. I understand that there are two ways to look at pressure, at micro scale (kinetic theory) and at macro scale (seeing pressure a a state variable). Now i'd like to understand atmospheric pressure using both perspectives. At...