It is common knowledge that the pressure of the atmosphere (about 105 newtons per square metre) is due to the weight of air above the Earth’s surface, that this pressure falls as one climbs upward, and, correspondingly, that pressure increases as one dives deeper into a lake (or comparable body of water). Mathematically, the rate at which the pressure in a stationary fluid varies with height z in a vertical gravitational field of strength g is given by If ρ and g are both independent of z, as is more or less the case in lakes, then This means that, ...(100 of 16900 words)