Victor is a Civil Engineer and goes to rural cities throughout California to provide environmentally sustainable ways of supplying water. In one community he builds a water tower consisting of a 15 m tall tub of water that is elevated 20 m off the ground, with a pipe tube that descends to ground level to provide water to the community. How fast will water flow out of the tube of Victor's water tower?
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.
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![Victor is a Civil Engineer and goes to rural cities throughout
California to provide environmentally sustainable ways of supplying
water. In one community he builds a water tower consisting of a 15
m tall tub of water that is elevated 20 m off the ground, with a pipe
tube that descends to ground level to provide water to the
community. How fast will water flow out of the tube of Victor's
water tower?
[the density of water is 1,000 kg/m^3]
13.5 m/s
26.2 m/s
21.7 m/s
8.9 m/s](/v2/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcontent.bartleby.com%2Fqna-images%2Fquestion%2F3ae856e8-b44a-47be-aaf0-1bb5746e1c2c%2F9b48cd2d-a6ee-4aa1-b868-96690b5817d4%2Fc6762tn_processed.png&w=3840&q=75)
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