Fox And Mcdonald's Introduction To Fluid Mechanics
9th Edition
ISBN: 9781119034582
Author: Fox, Robert W., MCDONALD, Alan T. , Pritchard, Philip J. , Mitchell, John W., 1934-
Publisher: Wiley,
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Chapter 1, Problem 34P
The mass flow rate in a water flow system determined by collecting the discharge over a timed interval is 0.2 kg/s. The scales used can be read to the nearest 0.05 kg and the stopwatch is accurate to 0.2 s. Estimate the precision with which the flow rate can be calculated for time intervals of (a) 10 s and (b) 1 min.
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