This podcast is made by Ran Chen, who holds an EA license, Insurance and Securities licenses (Series 6, 63, 65), and the CFP® designation. He is passionate about opening access to high-quality exam preparation resources and helping learners prepare more effectively for professional certification exams.

In this episode you will learn:

- The resultant hydrostatic force on a submerged plane is calculated using the pressure at the area's centroid.

- The center of pressure, where the resultant force acts, is always located at a point deeper than the centroid of the area.

- How to distinguish between vertical depth (h_c) and inclined distance (y_c) to the centroid, a common source of error on the exam.

- For curved surfaces, forces must be resolved into separate horizontal and vertical components for analysis.

- The vertical force component on a submerged curved surface is equal to the weight of the fluid column directly above it.

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