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Magdeburg hemispheres

1650, Otto von Guericke, mayor of Magdeburg (Germany), pumped the air out of two iron hemispheres in his famous experiment. The air pressure pressed with an enormous force on the vacuum inside that several horses didn't succeed in seperating the two hemispheres. You can test here your own Magdeburg hemispheres, chose the size and you can see, which strain they could stand.

Fill in the fields diameter and vacuum.
diameter of the globe: (d in grafic) cm
Vacuum in globe (V in grafic) %
  
In the globe, the pressure is Pascal.
The globe can stand a force of Newton.
So you can hang a weight of kg on the globe.


Notice: The air pressure is 1013.25 hPa in this experiment.




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