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Title

What is Wrong with Water Barometers?

Authors

Dan Sullivan, University of Nebraska at OmahaFollow
Robert W. Smith, University of Nebraska at OmahaFollow
E. J. Kemnitz, University of Nebraska at OmahaFollow
Kevin Barton, University of Nebraska at OmahaFollow
Robert M. Graham, University of Nebraska at OmahaFollow
Raymond A. Guenther, University of Nebraska at OmahaFollow
Larry Webber, University of Nebraska at OmahaFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2010

Abstract

Every student who studies atmospheric pressure in physics or chemistry learns the principles behind the construction of barometers. Cistern barometers, such as those found in most laboratories, consist of a long glass tube containing an inverted column of liquid having an open end in a cistern of the liquid. Students learn that the column of liquid is supported by air pressure and is equal in weight to a column of air of the same diameter.

Comments

Published in the Physics Teacher, 48(3), 191, 2010. Copyright © 2010, Physics Teacher. Used by permission.

The following article has been submitted to/accepted by The Physics Teacher. After it is published, it will be found at http://scitation.aip.org/tpt/.

Recommended Citation

Sullivan, Dan; Smith, Robert W.; Kemnitz, E. J.; Barton, Kevin; Graham, Robert M.; Guenther, Raymond A.; and Webber, Larry, "What is Wrong with Water Barometers?" (2010). Chemistry Faculty Publications. 13.
https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/chemfacpub/13