Let's say we pour 4 liters into a metallic sphere/container, and completely seal from pouring out. What will happen if we gradually squeeze the container, if the water cant pour out, but the container continues getting smaller and smaller.
2006-12-19 23:17:06 · 9 answers · asked by Neo 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
I understand that it might pass, but what will happen if we completely seal it off? What happens to water if it cant pour out and the container it is filled in is closing in?
2006-12-19 23:25:07 · update #1
What if the container is made from titanium?
2006-12-19 23:25:38 · update #2
All matter come in three form, Solid, Liquid, or a Gas. Combinations of the three are described by such words as Plasma, Slush, mud, etc. Water is a liquid. The properties of some liquids changing into a solid is a reduction in size. Water in its liquid state is of less mass within a given volume. The area that it covers is dependent on the thickness or depth. How high do you stack the molecules? Water expands in a solid state, water expands in a gaseous state. Water is ice, water is vapor, water is liquid. You can not change the mass by a means of compression in normal conditions. Out side of the norm we have the phenomena of reaction which is the result referred to reaction as in Nuclear. The compression would result in the release of energy. The Hydrogen will separate from the Oxygen with consequences you be better off to leave alone.
2006-12-20 00:01:35 · answer #1 · answered by Pauleinstein 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
By squeezing the container it will yield at the weakest point spilling the liquid. Place a copper penny on a rail track and recover it after the train passes. What you have is a flat piece of metal. If you could apply pressure to a sphere equally the result would be crystallization. Water in a crystal form is ice and expands unlike other matter. I am referring to the Russian design of hydraulic pressure mechanisms used to make Diamonds. There is a Florida Base Company that has several of these machines. At ambient pressure the sphere would collapse and the water spilled. On the flip side it will result in the H bomb as another has presented as an answer. What you read in books and read in expedia.com is not all true. There are a lot of high paid stupid people that just do not know as much as they think they know.
2006-12-21 02:38:06 · answer #2 · answered by blueridgemotors 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is a wrong assumption that the container continues getting smaller and smaller.
Water can with stand enormous pressure meaning that its volume will not decrease for enormous pressure.
When we press water, the pressure inside water increases, volume almost remains constant.
Hence the container experience reaction of pressure.
Assuming that the temperature of water is maintained at a constant temperature, the water will be water from 10^ (-3) atmospheric pressure to more than 1000 atmospheric pressure.
Hence you have to consider a container which can with stand the pressure.
If the container can withstand the pressure then it will not burst and water will be safe inside the container but giving a pressure of such huge amount.
Think of hydraulic pumps using water.
2006-12-20 09:55:54 · answer #3 · answered by Pearlsawme 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
You will not be able to squeeze the container
any further than it is of a size to exactly contain the 4 litres then the container will split under the pressure.
2006-12-20 07:36:13 · answer #4 · answered by burning brightly 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Water is NOT incompressibile! It will be compressed if the container gets smaller and smaller, so after water pressure increases over the materials limit the container will break.
When we say water is incompressible (as opposed to compressible gasses) we mean that even after applying very big pressures to the water its DENSITY will only change slightly (as opposed to a gas). So for most applications where pressure differences are limited we speak of INCOMPRESSIBLE FLUIDS but their pressure will indeed increase!
2006-12-20 08:12:50 · answer #5 · answered by Mr. X 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
The water will pass through the steel. Happens in subs.
You are talking a lot of pressure by the way.
2006-12-20 07:19:55 · answer #6 · answered by philip_jones2003 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The water will compress a extremely small amount, the volume made up of dissolved gasses, and then the container will break.
2006-12-20 07:27:52 · answer #7 · answered by Paul K 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Water is an incompressible fluid the container will break
2006-12-20 07:25:02 · answer #8 · answered by uncle J 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Eventualy that container will be no more. It will bust to pieces
2006-12-20 07:30:43 · answer #9 · answered by yung d 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋