As an engineer, you must also be mindful of the plumbing system of the house. In a house you are constructing, one point in a pipeline has a water speed of 4.00 m/s with a gauge pressure of 6.5 x 104 Pa. The second point in the pipeline that is 13.0 m lower than the first has a diameter that is twice that at the first. What is the gauge pressure at a second point in the pipeline?
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.
As an engineer, you must also be mindful of the plumbing system of the house. In a house you are constructing, one point in a pipeline has a water speed of 4.00 m/s with a gauge pressure of 6.5 x 104 Pa. The second point in the pipeline that is 13.0 m lower than the first has a diameter that is twice that at the first. What is the gauge pressure at a second point in the pipeline?
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