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Encyclopedia > Hydrostatics

Hydrostatics, also known as fluid statics, is the study of fluids at rest. The characteristic of any fluid at rest is that the force exerted on any particle of the fluid is the same for any other particle of the fluid. Basically this means that pressure is transmitted by an enclosed incompressible fluid. Fluid statics is the science of fluids at rest. ...


If the force is unequal the fluid will move in the direction of the resulting force. This concept was first formulated in a slightly extended form by the French mathematician and philosopher Blaise Pascal in 1647 and would be later known as Pascal's Law. This law has many important applications in hydraulics. Galileo Galilei, also was a major father of hydrostatics. A mathematician is a person whose area of study and research is mathematics. ... A philosopher is a person devoted to studying and producing results in philosophy. ... Blaise Pascal, portrait Blaise Pascal (June 19, 1623 – August 19, 1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, and religious philosopher. ... Events March 14 - Thirty Years War: Bavaria, Cologne, France and Sweden sign the Truce of Ulm. ... Pascals Law gives the hydrostatic pressure of a fluid at mechanical equilibrium (see also hydrostatics), on which only gravity forces are taken into account. ... Application has the following meanings: In general, an application is using something abstract for a more concrete use. ... Hydraulics is a branch of science and engineering concerned with the use of liquids to perform mechanical tasks. ... Galileo Galilei (Pisa, February 15, 1564 – Arcetri, January 8, 1642), was a Tuscan astronomer, philosopher, and physicist who is closely associated with the scientific revolution. ...


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Hydrostatics is about the pressures exerted by a fluid at rest.
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Hydrostatics (4619 words)
Abstract: The importance of hydrostatics for ectocochleate cephalopods and for the reconstruction of their lifestyle as well as the implications of hydrostatics and further physical conditions for the ontogenetic shell formation process are discussed.
Yet, since hydrostatics represents a most important prerequisite for understanding the various shell shapes and their presumable functions, the discussion of the hydrostatic behaviour of shells is an inevitable pre- condition for reconstructing the lifestyle, which in any case should precede conclusions derived from other considerations.
Hydrostatics at least offers an outstanding tool for the recognition and certain exclusion of incorrect ideas as to the former life- style of ectocochleate cephalopods.
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