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Pressure Concept

Demonstrations in Pressure

Plywood bed on casters densely packed with upward-pointing nails, with metal handles on both ends
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Bed of Nails

Demonstrates that pressure is inversely proportional to contact area . A person's body weight distributed across hundreds of nails keeps the pressure at each point well below the skin puncture …

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