a pipe with cross-sectional area 2m^2 runs horizontally across a platform at a height of 4 m. It connects via a vertical segment to a second pipe of area 0.5 m^2 running horizontally across the ground. The water in the first pipe is under a pressure of 1000 Pa, and is moving at 1 m/s. The density of water is 1000 kg/m^3. a. What is the speed of water in the second pipe? b. What is the pressure of water in the second pipe?
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.
a pipe with cross-sectional area 2m^2 runs horizontally across a platform at a height of 4 m. It connects via a vertical segment to a second pipe of area 0.5 m^2 running horizontally across the ground. The water in the first pipe is under a pressure of 1000 Pa, and is moving at 1 m/s. The density of water is 1000 kg/m^3.
a. What is the speed of water in the second pipe?
b. What is the pressure of water in the second pipe?
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