Water flows in the horizontal pipe shown in the figure.  At A the diameter is 5.00 cm and at B the diameter is 4.00 cm.  The fluid in the manometer is mercury, which has a density of 13,600 kg/m3.  The manometer reading h is 4.50 cm.  We can treat water as an ideal fluid having a density of 1000 kg/m3.  What volume of water is flowing through the pipe per second (in m3)?

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Water flows in the horizontal pipe shown in the figure.  At A the diameter is 5.00 cm and at B the diameter is 4.00 cm.  The fluid in the manometer is mercury, which has a density of 13,600 kg/m3.  The manometer reading h is 4.50 cm.  We can treat water as an ideal fluid having a density of 1000 kg/m3.  What volume of water is flowing through the pipe per second (in m3)?

 

a) 34.2 m3/s

b) 1.07 m3/s

c) 5.67 x 10-2 m3/s

d) 2.31 m3/s

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