How to know what units for pressure to use?






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Daniel Zhang 1E
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How to know what units for pressure to use?

Postby Daniel Zhang 1E » Mon Feb 08, 2016 5:51 pm

For question 4 on the 2011 practice midterm, the answer was given in bar even though there was no indication of it being used in the constants provided. How do we know to use bar rather than kPa or atm?
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Re: How to know what units for pressure to use?

Postby PriyaKohli3B » Mon Feb 08, 2016 6:58 pm

We do not, we can use any unit for pressure I would use bar or atm but I do not think it matters since units for pressure cancel out anyways.

Daniel Zhang 1E
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Re: How to know what units for pressure to use?

Postby Daniel Zhang 1E » Mon Feb 08, 2016 10:51 pm

But the units don't cancel out? It's


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