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Explain why (a) the blood pressure is humans is greater at the feet than at the brain.
(b) Atmospheric pressure at a height of about 6 km decreases to nearly half its value at the sea level through the 'height' of the atmospheric is more than 100 km.
(c) Hydrostatic pressure is a scalar quantity even though pressure is force divided by area , and force is a vector.

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