Advertisements
Advertisements
Question
The feet of lizards act like
Options
moving pads
drilling pads
suction pads
none of the above
Advertisements
Solution
suction pads
APPEARS IN
RELATED QUESTIONS
Explain why The blood pressure in humans is greater at the feet than at the brain
Toricelli’s barometer used mercury. Pascal duplicated it using French wine of density 984 kg m–3. Determine the height of the wine column for normal atmospheric pressure.
A large He balloon of volume 1425 m3 is used to lift a payload of 400 kg. Assume that the balloon maintains constant radius as it rises. How high does it rise? [Take y0= 8000 m and `rho_"He"`= 0.18 kg m–3].
Pressure is the thrust acting on a surface of ........... area.
The unit of pressure is .........
State the unit of thrust
A sharp pin works better than a blunt pin. Explain the reason.
The figure shows a brick of weight 2 kgf and dimensions 20 cm × 10 cm × 5 cm placed in three different positions on the ground. Find the pressure exerted by the brick in each case.
A beaker containing a liquid is kept inside a big closed jar. If the air inside the jar is continuously pumped out, the pressure in the liquid near the bottom of the liquid will
Assertion (A): Air gets thinner with increasing altitude.
Reason (R): The atmospheric pressure increases as we go up in mountains.
