The blood speed in a normal segment of a horizontal artery is 0.14 m/s. An abnormal segment of the artery is narrowed by an arteriosclerotic plaque down to one-fifth its normal cross-sectional area. What is the difference in blood pressures between the normal and constricted segments of the artery?
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.
The blood speed in a normal segment of a horizontal artery is 0.14 m/s. An abnormal segment of the artery is
narrowed by an arteriosclerotic plaque down to one-fifth its normal cross-sectional area. What is the difference in blood
pressures between the normal and constricted segments of the artery? (The density of the blood is 1060 kg/m3)
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