>>11543680>Considering water pressure is exponentialThe pressure contained in water is a function of how much weight that water is supporting. In other words, how much stuff is above it in a linear column. If you think about it, this should increase linearly with depth.
Now I used to be pretty confused about this, because I heard water was incompressible. But from the sound of it, it seems like the water is being compressed (that's why the bottom of an object feels more force than the top, because more molecules are hitting it).
But that's not really what's going on. You see the atoms contained in water have valence electrons, which have an electrical force keeping them apart from their nearby molecules. When those electrons get squeezed slightly together, they create a tremendous opposing force. That's where you get your pressure from. And you don't need to move the molecules that much closer together to get a huge pressure force. In this way, water is "pretty much" incompressible, and yet can hold "pressure"
