Juan is a Software Engineer for the Department of Water and Power (DWP), which stores LA's water in tanks that are 12 m underground but must be able to pump water to apartment as high as 5 stories up. If Juan makes the pressure in the storage tanks 6 atm, how fast will water flow out of a faucet on the 5th floor of an apartment (35 m high)? [Water has a density of 1,000 kg/m^3]
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.
![Juan is a Software Engineer for the Department of Water and Power (DWP), which stores
LA's water in tanks that are 12 m underground but must be able to pump water to apartments
as high as 5 stories up. If Juan makes the pressure in the storage tanks 6 atm, how fast will
water flow out of a faucet on the 5th floor of an apartment (35 m high)?
[Water has a density of 1,000 kg/m^3]](/v2/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcontent.bartleby.com%2Fqna-images%2Fquestion%2F3ae856e8-b44a-47be-aaf0-1bb5746e1c2c%2F2df685fd-fb56-4f6b-82e7-b08e55ab26bc%2F68ln93b_processed.jpeg&w=3840&q=75)
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