Fox and McDonald's Introduction to Fluid Mechanics
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Chapter 11, Problem 41P
A flume of timber has as its cross section an isosceles triangle (apex down) of 2.4 m base and 1.8 m altitude. At what depth will 5 m3/s flow uniformly in this flume if it is laid on a slope of 0.01?
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