Suppose you measure a standing person's blood pressure by placing the cuff on his leg 0.500 m below the heart. Calculate the pressure you would observe (in units of mm Hg) if the pressure at the heart were 120 over 80 $\mathrm{mm}$ Hg. Assume that there is no loss of pressure due to resistance in the circulatory system (a reasonable assumption, since major arteries are large).
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8 m/s^2), and $h$ is the height difference (0.500 m). Plugging in the values, we get: $\Delta P = 13,600 \, \text{kg/m}^3 \times 9.8 \, \text{m/s}^2 \times 0.500 \, \text{m}$ $\Delta P = 66,760 \, \text{N/m}^2$ Show more…
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