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Depends on If it's absolute or relative. Vacuum in any unit is zero in absolute pressure. Vacuum in any unit is -normal air pressure in relative pressure.
Atmospheric pressure at sea level is 14.7 pounds per square inch.Psia(pounds per square inch absolute) is also 14.7 pounds per square inch.However psia starts with zero pounds per square inch at 29.92 in Hg which is a vacuum measurement (absolute vacuum) in inches of mercury or in Hg.14.7 psi atmospheric pressure is as high as atmosphere pressure will ever reach. all measurements below that is a vacuum. That is where psia come in. It can start measurements in a vacuum and continue with the same unit of measurement after it comes out of the vacuum at 14.7 psi.
Condenser Backpressure is the difference between the Atmospheric Pressure and the Vacuum Reading of the Condenser, that is: Backpressure = Atm. Pressure - Condenser Vacuum Pressure Reading Usually, the condenser vacuum pressure is read by a manometer installed at the condenser. The atmospheric pressure is read using a barometer
A barometer is used to measure barometric pressure. An aneroid barometer has a sealed chamber with some air removed, creating a vacuum. A chain, lever, or spring connects a needle to a plastic disc covering the container. The pointer moves left to right as the air pressure increases or decreases.
Evangelista Torricelli discovered atmospheric pressure. Secretly, he created an expierement with some of his friends. By filling a bowl with mercury and placing a six foot long glass tube upside down into it, a vacuum was created, causing the mercury to rise up. This was an early barometer. The reason this expierement was kept secret was probably because in 1643, this would have been considered witchcraft because a vacuum was considered impossible.
A barometer is a closed-system vacuum that allows the mercury to expand with changes in temperature and pressure.
Depends on If it's absolute or relative. Vacuum in any unit is zero in absolute pressure. Vacuum in any unit is -normal air pressure in relative pressure.
there must be vacuum in the mercury barometer because if air enters the tube the barmeter would become faulty as air pressure will change.
Pressure is often measured in inches of mercury when describing barometric pressure in weather reports. This term is also known as "inches of mercury vacuum".
-14.7psig is the gauge pressure of an absolute vacuum.
vacuum is measured in pressure. To get a vacuum you need a negative pressure. that would be inches of mercury hg
You need a vacuum gauge and it is reed in inches.
absolute pressure is calculated from a vacuum (0 psi) and atmospheric pressure is14.7psia or 14.7 psi above a vacuum 1psi on a tire pressure gauge is called 1psig = 15.7psia 10psig=24.7psia 100psig=114.7psia etc.
There are several units of measure to use while dealing with vacuum. The absolute units start from full vacuum then approach atmospheric pressure. The "Gauge" ones use atmospheric pressure as a baseline- but Atm. Pressure varies with each day, with altitude, temperature and even with Hurricanes. Some absolute units are: Torr, Millitorr, Mbar Some "Gauge" units are: "Hg, Psig, "H20 (inches of water) For more info see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pressure_measurement
Atmospheric pressure at sea level is 14.7 pounds per square inch.Psia(pounds per square inch absolute) is also 14.7 pounds per square inch.However psia starts with zero pounds per square inch at 29.92 in Hg which is a vacuum measurement (absolute vacuum) in inches of mercury or in Hg.14.7 psi atmospheric pressure is as high as atmosphere pressure will ever reach. all measurements below that is a vacuum. That is where psia come in. It can start measurements in a vacuum and continue with the same unit of measurement after it comes out of the vacuum at 14.7 psi.
Air pressure is usually measured using a barometer. This device usually has mercury inside it along a tube that is a compete vacuum. As the air pressure rises the pressure of the air pushes down on the mercury and forces it to rise further into the vacuum. 760 mm of mercury is considered to be 1 atmosphere. For very high pressures an aneroid barometer is used. This has wafers inside that are compressed under high pressure that give a reading.
pressure is usually measured relative to atmospheric this is called gauge pressure. if you compare against absolute zero pressure (vacuum) this is called absolute pressure.