Pressure (OCR Gateway GCSE Physics: Combined Science)

Topic Questions

1a1 mark

A depth of 10 m of water exerts the same amount of pressure as the entire Earths atmosphere, which is ~120 km deep.

Suggest why.

1b2 marks

A diver takes pressure readings at different depths.

The results are in the table.

Depth of water
(m)
Pressure
(standard units)
0 1
10 2
20 3
30 4
40 5
50 6


Use the results to describe the relationship between the depth of water and pressure.

1c1 mark

Suggest why there is pressure at 0 metres.

1d4 marks
d)
A container of vegetable oil has 3 holes in it (A, B and C).
q18d-paper3-specimen-ocr-gcse-physicsThe vegetable oil has a density of 9.1 × 102 kg/m3.

Calculate the change in pressure from A to B.

Show your working and give your answer to two significant figures

Answer = ......................... Pa [4]

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