Observe the manometer when you vary the temperature of the gas.
Remember that the pressure at two points in the tube situated at the same height is the same: pA = pB
Pressure at point A is that due to the atmosphere and to the column of liquid above A, of a height h.
The pressure at point B is due to the gas.
Ppressure of the gas = P
atm. + dliquid ·g · h
To calculate the manometric pressure
p = dliquid
·g · h, you only need to measure h, as the density of the liquid in the manometer is known.
In manometers you don't have to calculate this as there is a calibrated scale in pressure units on branch A.
It should be remembered that what the manometer measures is the so-called manometric pressure,
which is the value of the pressure of the gas once atmospheric pressure has been deducted.
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