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Underwater and in the Air: Pressure
Imploded Water Bottles
Reducing Water Pressure
Shrink Tape Applying Pressure
Pressure vs. Height
Atmospheric Pressure at the top of a Mountain
Carbon Dioxide in Balloons
Underwater Electronics
Flux Through Half Full Airtight Container vs. Pressure?
Buoyant Force on Bottom
Closed Capillary Tube
Building an Underwater Rover
Water Pressure Under Water.
Air Flow and Heating
Making a Vacuum Chamber
When and why Does Pascal's Law Work?
Leaking Soda Bottles
Collisions and the Ideal gas Law
Shower Curtain Problems
Suction Cups at High Altitude
Rijke Tube Gauze Placement
Asymmetrical Contraction of Breast Implants
Vacuum Chamber to Boil Water
Does Weight on a Tire Affect Pressure?
How Hydraulic Brakes Work
Vacuum Containers
Leaky Bottles in Airplanes
Buoyant Forces
Boiling Point of Water in an Airplane
What Causes Atmospheric Pressure?
Heating by Compression
Cooling Gases With Pressure?
Car Tires Heating Up
Ideal gas Law
Water Pressure in Various Shaped Vessels
Effect of Gravity on Pressure
Slow Vacuum of hot Tank
Why do Gases Spread Out?
Bottle Rocket Pressure Psi
Liquid Weight vs. Pressure
Heron's Fountain
Ideal Gas Law in Basketballs
Pressure at Lake Discharge Pipe.
Pressure and Volume Under Water
Pressure From Liquids
Float Type Water Cut-off Valve.
Fluid Pressure With Acceleration
Air Pressure on Levee
Water Friction Loss in Pipe
Where is There a Perfect Vacuum?
Boiling Water in Syringe
Scooting Through Deep Water
Earth Core Pressure?
Ideal Incompressible Fluids
Derivation of PV=NkT
Pressure in Odd-shaped Aquarium
Pressure and Shape
Is it Possible to Inflate a Balloon With air Underwater?
Mountain top air Pressure
Underwater Pressure
Submarines and Water Pressure
Submarine Windows
Water Pressure
Applying Pascal’s Law
Pascal’s Law
Pressure - Gravity Matters?
Calculating Underwater Pressure
Generating Air Pressure
Water Vapor - Some Like it Hot; Some Like it Cold.
Shrinking Cans and Shattering Plates
Air Pressure
High and Low Vacuum
Upside-Down Water Glass
Pressure of Liquid at Depth (M)
Water Pressure on a Door
Water Pressure
Strong Spheres
Pressure Around the World
Water Pressure
Making a Vacuum on the Cheap
Hot air Expands
Pressure and Holes in Cans
Aquarium Safety
Water and air Pressure
Water Compressibility
Air Takes Up Space
Snorkeling Limits
Soda Explosion
Concave Handkerchief
Pressure-based Fuel Gauge
Pressure is Everywhere
What is Pascal’s Law
Love Meter
Experiments on Air Pressure
Shooting Stuff
Hero's Fountains
Air Pressure vs. Water Pressure
Air Pressure
Bernoulli’s Principle
If You're at the Bottom of the Ocean or in Space...
All About Submarines
The Dunking Bird
Syringe Physics
Hero's Fountain Troubleshooting
Air and Water... Which is Stronger?
The Air is Still in There
High-Altitude Hero’s Fountains
Experience With Vacuums
Pressure and air Weight
Tin Cans and Water
Searching for Treasure With a Caisson