Calculate the height of a column of carbon tetrachloride, ccl4(l), with a density of 1.59 g/ml that exerts the same pressure as a 15.2 cm column of mercury, hg(l), that has a density of 13.6 g/ml. express your answer in meters.

1.30 m

Explanation:

The pressure (P) exerted by a column of a liquid can be calculated with the following expression:

where,

ρ is the density of the liquid

g is the gravity

h is the height of the column

If both liquids exert the same pressure:

in simple terms, the principle states that the buoyancy force on an object is equal to the weight of the fluid displaced by the object, or the density of the fluid multiplied by the submerged volume times the gravitational acceleration, g. this is also known as upthrust.