A horizontal hose pipe is lying on the ground and it contains water at a pressure of 110 x10' Pa flowing with a speed of 1.6 m/s. a) When the pipe narrows to one half of its original diameter, what are the speed and pressure of the water in this part of the pipe? (p= 1000 kg/m³, Pa 101.3 x10' Pa) W b) You noticed that there is a leak in the thick part of the pipe. If water is coming out of this leak, to what maximum height can this water rise?
Fluid Pressure
The term fluid pressure is coined as, the measurement of the force per unit area of a given surface of a closed container. It is a branch of physics that helps to study the properties of fluid under various conditions of force.
Gauge Pressure
Pressure is the physical force acting per unit area on a body; the applied force is perpendicular to the surface of the object per unit area. The air around us at sea level exerts a pressure (atmospheric pressure) of about 14.7 psi but this doesn’t seem to bother anyone as the bodily fluids are constantly pushing outwards with the same force but if one swims down into the ocean a few feet below the surface one can notice the difference, there is increased pressure on the eardrum, this is due to an increase in hydrostatic pressure.
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