Pressure & Hydrostatic Pressure

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The discussion focuses on understanding pressure and hydrostatic pressure, specifically through the application of the formula P = H ⋅ ρ ⋅ g. The user seeks assistance with exercises 12 and 13 from their homework, which involve calculating pressure and volume related to a stone. Despite attempts to solve the problems using the provided equations, the user expresses difficulty in achieving the correct results and requests detailed explanations for these exercises.

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Hello, I would like somebody to help me with few simple questions for my homework. I did try to solve them but I failed at few of them. Here are the two papers I need to help with. I need help with the highlighted excerises. I tried some basic formulas for pressure and hyrdostatic pressure but as I said I failed a lot. May you guys please explain how can I achieve the result on these exercises. On the page with exercises 11) 12) and 13) Could you please explain i depth the 12 and 13? If you can't read the exercise just skip it. I would like to thank you in advance.

Homework Statement


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2. Homework Equations

Well I tried to work with
P = H ⋅ ρ ⋅ g
also I tried for the stone 13)
V = (m ⋅ S) : ρ (of the stone)

The Attempt at a Solution


I would like to apologise for not posting my attempts as it is just mess on my paper. I tried using these formulas but did not help. I was only given these. Cant really figure out much.


 

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