Objekt 28
Device for demonstrating the hydrostatic paradox
Description
A wide and a narrow vessel are screwed onto the same cylinder. If the water column is the same, the bottom pressure is the same in both vessels. This hydrostatic paradox states that the gravitational pressure exerted by a liquid in a vessel on the bottom of the vessel depends on the filling level of the liquid, but is independent of the shape of the vessel and thus of the quantity of liquid contained.
Object description
Manufacturer: Johann Ulrich Götz (1694-1758)
Basel, 1728
Brass, iron
Signature: JOHAN ULRICH GOETZ FECIT 1728
already proven in the collection in 1757
Deposit Institute of Physics of the University of Basel, Phys. 1.
Inv. 1986.424.