Water is pumped up from the Colorado River to supply Grand Canyon Village, located on the rim of the canyon. The river is at an elevation of 515 m, and the village is at an elevation of 2,096 m. Imagine that the water is pumped through a single long pipe 18.0 cm in diameter, driven by a single pump at the bottom end. (c) What additional pressure is necessary to deliver this flow?
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 pumped up from the Colorado River to supply Grand Canyon Village, located on the rim of the canyon. The river is at an elevation of 515 m, and the village is at an elevation of 2,096 m. Imagine that the water is pumped through a single long pipe 18.0 cm in diameter, driven by a single pump at the bottom end. (c) What additional pressure is necessary to deliver this flow?
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