Air is evacuated from a vacuum chamber and the flow rate is measured. A section of circular plumbing is removed and replaced with a piece having a radius that is one third the size of the original. The flow rate is measured again. What is the ratio of the new flow rate to the old flow rate?
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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.
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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.
Air is evacuated from a vacuum chamber and the flow rate is measured. A section of circular plumbing is removed and replaced with a piece having a radius that is one third the size of the original. The flow rate is measured again. What is the ratio of the new flow rate to the old flow rate?
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