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Atmospheric Pressure

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Every square centimetre of your body experiences a force equal to the weight of 1 kg due to the atmospheric pressure. True or false?

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True.

Due to the atmospheric pressure of air, we experience a force equal to that exerted by a mass of 1 kg on every square centimetre of our body.

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