For its drinking water, a small cabin in the woods uses a sealed water tank. The tank is filled to a depth of 1.89 m and then a small air pump can be used to pressurize the pocket of air above the water. Water flows out from the bottom of the tank through a small hole. What is the speed of water when it exits the tank if the air is pressurized to a gauge pressure of 2.05 atm? Give your answer in units of m/s.
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.
For its drinking water, a small cabin in the woods uses a sealed water tank. The tank is filled to a depth of 1.89 m and then a small air pump can be used to pressurize the pocket of air above the water. Water flows out from the bottom of the tank through a small hole.
What is the speed of water when it exits the tank if the air is pressurized to a gauge pressure of 2.05 atm?
Give your answer in units of m/s.
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