About how much pressure do the feet of a 6000 kg elephant exert on the ground? assume each foot has an area of 0.10 square meter.

i already know the answer but i was just wondering, is the weight of the elephant (6000kg) the force? or would i need to find the force through an equation

Approximately 1.5 × 10⁵ Pa.

Explanation:

In simple words, pressure is the normal force per unit area:  

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where

What will be the size of the normal force?

Weight of the elephant, which is the same as the gravitational pull on the elephant, will be:

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where

The elephant stands on solid ground. It's not accelerating upward or downward. Forces on the elephant are balanced. As a result, the size of the normal force on the elephant will be the same as that of the earth's gravitational pull on the elephant (not the case in an accelerating elevator.)

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Each elephant got four feet. The area of each foot is . The total contact area will be .

Apply the formula. Make sure both the normal force and the contact area are in SI units:

If that's the case, the pressure result will be in the unit newtons per square meters or equivalently, Pascals .

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