RE: GT-6/Spitfire brakes

[Randall Young <ryoung@NAVCOMTECH.COM>]

William G Rosenbach wrote :
>
> If you take the same setup and apply the 10 psi to a 0.5 square inch
> piston you are now getting 10 lbs per 1/2 square inch which is 20 psi and
> you get 20 lbs. of force out of the system.

No, that's wrong.  If you apply 10 psi to a 0.5 square inch piston, you only
get 10 psi per 1/2 square inch which is 10 psi.  The force exerted on the
piston is the pressure times the area, or 10 times 0.5, which is 5 pounds of
force.

Randall