Example Problem - Weight on a Piston Head
Channel: Thermofluids
Date: 24/08/2020

A piston with additional weights has been suspended on top of cylinder containing a gas. The weight of the piston and weights is a combined 200 lb, and the diameter of the cylinder is 0.5 m. The ambient atmospheric pressure is assumed to be 95 kPa. Determine the absolute pressure inside the cylinder (kPa).