Center of Pressure

Center of Pressure

•  A pivoted clear plastic assembly which students use to find the centre of pressure of a totally or partially submerged plane surface.  
•  Compact, self-contained and excellent for classroom demonstrations.
•  A scale on the panel of the apparatus shows the head of water.  
•  Consists of a vertical panel that holds a clear plastic quadrant, to which students add water.  
•  The quadrant has engraved lines to help students keep the plane in a vertical or angled position.  
•  Cylindrical sides of the quadrant have their central axis coincidental with the moment measurement axis.  
•  The total fluid pressures on these curved surfaces therefore exert no moment about this pivot.  
•  Therefore, the moment is only due to the fluid pressure on the plane test surface.  
•  Students measure this moment using weights suspended from a level arm.

Center of Pressure ALTEC Laboratory Equipments and ALTEC Laboratory Instruments Tenders.