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Science & Mathematics by Anonymous 2018-07-16 19:34:30
Social Science
The pressure exerted by the weight of earths atmosphere?
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Anonymous
Is 101 kPa ( about 1kg weight for every cm^2 of surface area). This is sufficient to prevent your blood from boiling and the oceans from evaporating enabling life on earth. Lucky us.
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Anonymous
It is the reading you get on a barometer. It varies from time to time and place to place. It is 29.92 inches of mercury at sea level on a standard day. This means it is ~ 14.7 PSI most of the time.
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Anonymous
The pressure is 14.7 pounds per square inch. If you need the actual weight, which is NOT what you asked for. The area of earth is 510072000 km². Convert that to square inches and multiply by 14.7 to get 1.16e19 lb
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Anonymous
is about 14.7 pounds per square inch, or 101 kPa.
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Anonymous
PSI
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Anonymous
It's called "one atmosphere", which is 101325 pascals or 14.69595 psi