Notes on pressure

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Notes on pressure
Release																				26 November 2008 (Update)
Members																				Yes
Quest item																				While Guthix Sleeps
Properties
Tradeable																				No
Equipable																				No
Stackable																				No
Disassembly																				No
Destroy																				You found these notes in Movario's basement. You can also reclaim it from the quest storage chest.
Examine																				A collection of notes made by an absent-minded fellow.
Options
Backpack																				Look-at, Read, Destroy
Values
Value																				1 coin
Alchemy																				Not alchemisable
On death																				Always kept outside dangerous area
Weight																				0.2 kg
Advanced data
Item ID																				14463
Links																				MRID • recipe

Notes on pressure is a quest item from While Guthix Sleeps obtained in Movario's base. The notes are a hint as to how to exit the base even though the "Look-at" option only reads: "Some notes about pressure... probably just boring old stuff anyway." If you lose the notes during or after the quest, you can reobtain them in the base.

Book info

Notes on pressure
Author				Movario
Quest				While Guthix Sleeps
Readable
Bookcase

Transcript

The following text is transcluded from Transcript:Notes on pressure.

~ A treatise on pressure ~

During my many adventures, I've had occasion to notice the effect of mass upon a compressible fluid or solid. In some planes, for instance, differences in gravity may affect one's weight, but relative pressure remains constant, as the fluid or solid being measured is affected in the same way.

With these experiences I've deduced that, just as weight can be measured, pressure can be recorded as a reflection of mass.

In the first instance, my unit of measurement is quite arbitrary, but suits my needs. The pressure applied to a cubic yard of air by the heat of a typical dragon's flame I have dubbed as 1 dragflam (D) and broken that down into 1,000 tickits (t).

Of course, it is difficult to coerce a person into a container to be scorched by a dragon, and the only practical purpose I can thus far determine is to measure vertical pressure   that is, the pressure afforded from a combination of mass and gravity.

Therefore, a small amount of weight, say that produced by a human body carrying seventeen units of coal produces around thirty-eight tickits (38t) of vertical pressure.

These are sensible assumptions to make regarding pressure, at least until a universally agreed scale of measurement exists.

Other standard vertical pressures include:

rune platebody   9t

mithril crossbow - 5t

fire battlestaff   2t.

Update history

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• update 26 November 2008 (Update):
  • Added to game.

Trivia

• It can be re-obtained at May's Quest Caravan after putting 150 quest points into the Hub Track.
• These notes are visually identical to research notes from the quest Animal Magnetism.