Even though your car weighs several thousand pounds, it can easily be raised above your head by a pneumatic lift at the service station by a small motor pumping fluid through a pipe. This an illustration of A) Pascal's Principle. B) Archimedes' Principle. C) Bernoulli's Law. D) Newton's 3^rd Law.

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This is an example of Pascal's Principle, which states that pressure applied to an enclosed fluid is transmitted equally in all directions throughout the fluid. In this case, the pressure applied by the small motor pumping fluid through a pipe is transmitted equally throughout the hydraulic system, allowing for the lift of a heavy object such as a car.

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