Use the equation P FA = ¸ to determine the pressure on the knee joint (area = 100 cm 2 ) when a 70 kg person is standing on one leg (assume that 70 kg is the body mass above the knee). Hint: convert cm 2 to m 2
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C: using PFA = ¸ and remembering that the weight, F of a person with mass 70 kg is 70 × 10 and converting 100 cm 2 to 0.001 m 2 , putting in the numbers gives: P Pa kPa
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