Kinda of a long question, i apologize in advance. If we were to turn both of these cylinders into two separate hand powered bike tire air pumps, where each pump is moving the same volume of air with each complete stroke, except one has a smaller diameter piston but longer stroke and the other had a larger diameter piston but shorter stroke, would that mean the smaller diameter piston would require less input pressure to inflate a tire where as the larger piston would require more pressure, but inflate a tire quicker?
The smaller diameter pump would require less force to pump up the tire, where as the larger diameter pump would require more force... This is seen in road vs mtb hand pumps.
Is it possible to multiply forces by linking two of these systems together? Imagine a rod leading from the output piston of the first system and pushing on the input piston of the second. We should be able to connect as many of these in series as we like and and get massive forces applied to the final output piston, no? Is this ever done in practice?
