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armolinasf
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Homework Statement
I was reading that if you have a room with a floor of say 20 square meters, then the downward air pressure would be equal to almost 240 tons which is obviously more than enough to collapse the floor, but since there is an equal upward pressure coming from the air underneath the floor the pressures all cancel out and everything is fine.
But pressure also varies according to temperature. So I was wondering, if you could isolate the two air masses, would it then be possible to change the pressure of the gas on each side of the floor such that there would be a great enough difference to cause the floor to collapse?