To better fight fires in your seaside community, the local fire brigade has aske

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To better fight fires in your seaside community, the local fire brigade has asked you to construct a pump system to draw seawater from the ocean to the top of the steep cliff adjacent to the water where most of the homes are. If the cliff is 13.6 m high, and the pump is capable of producing a gauge pressure of 155 kPa, how much water can be pumped using a hose with a radius of 3.2 cm? (Neglect the viscosity of the water.) L/s The water being drawn from the ocean is at rest initially. Use the volume flow rate equation and Bernoulli's equation.

Explanation / Answer

from burnoulis equation

155000 = 0.5 x1000xV^2 + 1000x9.8x13.6

V = 6.5909 m/s

we know that

Q = VA

Q = 0.032 x0.032 x pi x V

Q = 0.0212 m^3/s

Q = 21.2 L/s

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