One way to administer an inoculation is with a “gun” that shoots the vaccine through a narrow opening. No needle is necessary, for the vaccine emerges with sufficient speed to pass directly into the tissue beneath the skin. The speed is high, because the vaccine ( = 1100 kg/m3 ) is held in a reservoir where a high pressure pushes it out. The pressure on the surface of the vaccine in one gun is 4.1 x 106 Pa above the atmospheric pressure outside the narrow opening. The dosage is small enough that the vaccine’s surface in the reservoir is nearly stationary during an inoculation. The vertical height between the vaccine’s surface in the reservoir and the opening can be ignored. Find the speed at which the vaccine emerges.
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.
One way to administer an inoculation is with a “gun” that shoots the vaccine through a
narrow opening. No needle is necessary, for the vaccine emerges with sufficient speed
to pass directly into the tissue beneath the skin. The speed is high, because the vaccine
( = 1100 kg/m3
) is held in a reservoir where a high pressure pushes it out. The pressure
on the surface of the vaccine in one gun is 4.1 x 106 Pa above the atmospheric pressure
outside the narrow opening. The dosage is small enough that the vaccine’s surface in
the reservoir is nearly stationary during an inoculation. The vertical height between the
vaccine’s surface in the reservoir and the opening can be ignored. Find the speed at
which the vaccine emerges.
Trending now
This is a popular solution!
Step by step
Solved in 2 steps
