Water is flowing through a pipeline. At one point along the flow where the gauge pressure is 41,000 Pa, the water is flowing in at a rate of 2.1 m/s. Further down the line, at a second point 4.3 meters lower than the previous point, the diameter of the pipe is half the diameter at the first location. What is the gauge pressure at this 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.
Water is flowing through a pipeline. At one point along the flow where the gauge pressure is 41,000 Pa, the water is flowing in at a rate of 2.1 m/s. Further down the line, at a second point 4.3 meters lower than the previous point, the diameter of the pipe is half the diameter at the first location. What is the gauge pressure at this second point in the pipeline?
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