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DOABLE DEMO: Newspaper Mummies to Determine Surface Area, in this fun, instructive activity, a volunteer is carefully taped with newspaper and then the area of the newspaper determined to compute how much atmospheric pressure presses down on the volunteer. This is an excellent activity for discussing experimental error and atmospheric pressure.  Why is it we don’t feel the weight of the atmosphere?
 
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