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  2. Static pressure - Wikipedia

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    At least one author takes a different approach in order to avoid a need for the expression freestream static pressure. Gracey has written "The static pressure is the atmospheric pressure at the flight level of the aircraft". [15] [16] Gracey then refers to the air pressure at any point close to the aircraft as the local static pressure.

  3. Diffuser (thermodynamics) - Wikipedia

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    A diffuser is "a device for reducing the velocity and increasing the static pressure of a fluid passing through a system”. [1] The fluid's static pressure rise as it passes through a duct is commonly referred to as pressure recovery. In contrast, a nozzle is used to increase the discharge velocity and lower the pressure of a fluid passing ...

  4. Pressure measurement - Wikipedia

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    Many techniques have been developed for the measurement of pressure and vacuum. Instruments used to measure and display pressure mechanically are called pressure gauges, vacuum gauges or compound gauges (vacuum & pressure). The widely used Bourdon gauge is a mechanical device, which both measures and indicates and is probably the best known ...

  5. Static - Wikipedia

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    Static pressure, in aircraft instrumentation and fluid dynamics Static port, a proprietary sensor used on aircraft to measure static pressure; White noise or static noise, a random signal with a flat power spectral density Radio noise, in radio reception

  6. Venturi effect - Wikipedia

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    The upstream static pressure (1) is higher than in the constriction (2), and the fluid speed at "1" is lower than at "2", because the cross-sectional area at "1" is greater than at "2". A flow of air through a pitot tube Venturi meter, showing the columns connected in a manometer and partially filled with water. The meter is "read" as a ...

  7. Dust collector - Wikipedia

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    Air enters at the eye of the rotor, makes a right-angle turn, and is forced through the blades of the rotor by centrifugal force into the scroll-shaped housing. The centrifugal force imparts static pressure to the air. The diverging shape of the scroll also converts a portion of the velocity pressure into static pressure. [citation needed]

  8. Holiday forecast: Dreaming of a white Christmas is better ...

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    A low pressure system developing across the upper Midwest and Great Lakes was forecast to bring freezing rain to some areas Sunday and Monday, and winter weather advisories were in effect ...

  9. Glossary of physics - Wikipedia

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    absolute pressure Is zero-referenced against a perfect vacuum, using an absolute scale, so it is equal to gauge pressure plus atmospheric pressure. absolute scale Any system of measurement that begins at a minimum, or zero point, and progresses in only one direction. The zero point of an absolute scale is a natural minimum, leaving only one ...