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if you have a complete vaccuum how hard will it be to make that vaccuumed area bigger?
Say you have a complete vaccuum with not one molecule of gas inside. (theoretically).
You have a plunging instrument hooked up to it. You have a powerful machine to pull the plunger.
Then as the pressure is not changing, (because in both instances the vaccuum would be the same pressure right?,) then the machine would need the same amount of force to pull the first few centimetres as it would the next few centimetres and so on...? I asked a chemist once but he was an idiot.
3 Answers
- KesLv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
A piston type vacuum pump would act to move an unbalanced force. If you have a perfect vacuum on one side and atmospheric pressure on the other side, the force required to pull the piston away from the vacuum would be the differential pressure (14.7 - 0 psid) times the area of the piston. This would require work (and power) but you would get all the work back (neglecting friction) as the piston approaches the vacuum chamber. The differential pressure on the piston would be constant (as you suggest). If there is atmospheric pressure on both sides of the piston, no work (neglecting friction) will be performed (because there is no unbalanced force).
- 1 decade ago
Increasing the volume of the vacuum space will not change the force required. If there is truly nothing in the vacuum then you can't make it more nothing.
When fighting the effects of a vacuum you are in reality lifting a column of air off of the earth. Think of a tube which extends from the Earths surface into space, this tube is closed on the bottom. There is a plunger at the bottom, as you lift the plunger you are lifting all the air in the tube, the vacuum forms simply because there is nothing that can enter it. The weight of the air above the vacuum will be no different if you lift the plunger 6" or 60". The volume of the vacuum is irrelevant to the force required to lift the air above it.
- 1 decade ago
ok
let me say u some things
1)complete vaccum is impossible even in theory!!!
bcoz when u attain even very low pressures the molecules of the container will go in side toring of from the container
so
in the course of time if tear of completely
ok
let us assume such a container
u would ned an infinitly large force to pull it it apart
and since infinities come in to play
ur theory is correct
da y did u asked a Chemist!!!!
now ur an idiot(I am sorry just kidding!!!:-)