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Homework Statement
Consider a water pipe that tapers down from a diameter dA= 5.0 cm at
end A to a diameter dB = 2.5 cm at end B. At each end a vertical pipe that is open to the air at the
top is attached to the pipe as shown in the Figure. (Not to scale, the pipes are much taller than
shown.) Assume that water flows through the pipe at high enough pressure that the vertical pipes
1 and 2 are partially filled with water. You may take g=10 m/s2http://uploadnow.org/image/328813-physics.jpeg
(a) In which pipe will the water level be higher or will it be at the same height in both pipes?
Explain. Does this depend on the direction of the water flow?
(b) If the water enters the pipe at point A with a velocity vA=2.0 m/s, what is its velocity when it
exits at point B?
(c) If the water enters the pipe at point A with a velocity vA=2.0 m/s, what is the height
difference between the levels in the two vertical pipes? If the difference is not zero, please
indicate which pipe has the higher level.
Homework Equations
A1v1=A2v2
Bernoulli's Equation
P=ρgh
The Attempt at a Solution
(a) My answer is that because end A will have higher pressure than end B due to Bernoulli's principle and the equation above, the water level in column 1 will be higher than column 2.
I'm just not entirely sure that it's correct.
(b) A1v1=A2v2
vA=2.0 m/s
rA=0.025 m
rB=0.0125 m
vB=πrA2 * vA / (πrB2)
= 8.0 m/s
(c) This is the answer I'm most uncertain about.
From Bernoulli's equation, I derived
(yA2-yA1)=h1=[(Po-P1) - (1/2)*ρvA2]/(ρg)
and
(yB2-yB1)=h2=[(Po-P2) - (1/2)*ρvB2]/(ρg)
and
P1=P2+ρgΔy
where
P0 = atmospheric pressure above water in vertical pipe
P1 = pressure right below vertical pipe #1
P1 = pressure right below vertical pipe #2
Δy = difference in height between A and B
I then found the difference in height between the two openings, A and B, to be 0.4625,
and, still assuming that column #1 has a higher water level, subtracted h2 from h1:
h1-h2 = [[(Po-P2 - ρg(0.4625)) - (1/2)*ρvA2] - [(Po-P2) - (1/2)*ρvB2]] / (ρg)
=[[- ρg(0.4625) - (1/2)*ρvA2] - [-(1/2)*ρvB2]] / (ρg)
=[(1/2)*vB2 - (1/2)*vA2 - g(0.4625)] / gPlugging in
vA=2.0
vB=8.0
g=10
I get Δh=2.5375 m
As I said, I'm very uncertain about the way I approached this last part, so help would be greatly appreciated!
--Johan