You wish to observe the progress of your vacuum pump in


You wish to observe the progress of your vacuum pump in evacuating a tall bell jar for the purpose of demonstrating that sound waves do not travel in a vacuum. So you place a mercury barometer inside the bell jar and follow the height of the mercury column as the pump chugs away. When you observe a height of 5.77 mm, what fraction of atmospheric pressure, expressed as a percentage, have you achieved in your bell jar? The density of mercury is 1.36 × 104 kg/m3 and standard atmospheric pressure is 1.01 × 105 Pa.

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