A centrifugal pump consists simply of a shaft and a few blades attached normally to the shaft. If the shaft is rotated at a constant rate of 1800 rpm, what would the theoretical pump head due to this rotation be? Take the impeller diameter to be 35 cm and neglect the blade tip effects.

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