pascal

SI pressure measure

A pascal is the SI unit of pressure, equal to one newton per square meter.

Named after the French mathematician and physicist Blaise Pascal, it measures stress, tensile strength, and atmospheric pressure.

Weather reports often use hectopascals (hPa) or kilopascals (kPa) since the base unit is quite small: Standard atmospheric pressure is about 101,325 pascals. (Capitalized Pascal is the programming language or surname.)

pressure

atmosphere

Gaseous layer around planets

barometerInstrument gauging atmospheric pressure
hectopascalMetric pressure unit
kilopascalPressure measurement unit

megapascal · torr · millibar · psi · barometric · manometer · sphygmomanometer · compression · hydraulics · fluid dynamics

units

newton

SI force unit

jouleSI energy quantity
wattUnit measuring power
henryElectrical inductance unit

ohm · volt · ampere · coulomb · weber · tesla · farad · gray · SI units

aeronautics

altimeter

Instrument measuring elevation

airspeedAircraft's atmospheric velocity
altitudeMeasured height above reference
flight levelAviation altitude reference

aviation · meteorology · weather · atmospheric pressure · calibration

Opposites

measurement system

pascalpounds per square inch

Pressure unit, force/area

psi · imperial units · bar · atmosphere · torr

programming paradigm

pascalmachine code

CPU-executable binary instructions

assembly language · COBOL · Python · JavaScript · Perl

philosophical stance on faith and reason

pascalVoltaire

French Enlightenment satirist

David Hume · Bertrand Russell · Friedrich Nietzsche · Spinoza · Descartes

Phrases

Pedro Pascal
Pascal's triangleTriangular array of binomial coefficients
Blaise PascalSeventeenth-century French mathematician-theologian
Paschal cycleEaster dating system
paschal lambPassover sacrificial animal
Pascal's WagerRational case for faith

Family

pascals, paschal, kilopascals, paschal lamb

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