Talk:Fluid statics

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[edit] Hydrostatic pressure

The "hydrostatic pressure" section makes zero sense, and I'm not just talking about the grammar. Can someone fix it? Piercetheorganist 00:51, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

It's also a shame that such an important topic has no article of its own, just redirects to this bad sub-section. I'm not qualified to write an article, but at least in medicine it's important enough to merit its own, decent article. - Draeco (talk) 05:12, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Weight of water

Someone[1] or two people[2] have changed the article to say that

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Considering a small cube of liquid at rest below a free surface, pressure caused by the height of the liquid above must be balanced by a resisting pressure in this small cube. For an infinitely small cube the stress is the same in all directions and liquid weight or equivalent pressure can be expressed as...

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However, I was under the impression that, because pressure is Force over area, pressure was thus caused by a force acting over an area, the force being the weight of the water in this case. Is this not the case? --M1ss1ontomars2k4 (talk) 00:27, 24 March 2008 (UTC)