Thanks to all of you who support me on Patreon. You da real mvps! $1 per month helps!! 🙂 https://www.patreon.com/patrickjmt !! Hydrostatic Force – Basic Idea / Deriving the Formula. In this video, I discuss the basic idea of how we compute hydrostatic force. I also discuss the general procedure of how we will approach a problem. I do not actually do an example in this video (but I do in other videos!).