The reading of a pressure meter attached with a closed water pipe is 3.5 x 105 N m−2. On opening the valve of the pipe, the reading of pressure meter is reduced to 3 x 105 N m−2. Calculate the speed of water flowing in the pipe.
Applying Bernoulli's
principle when the pipe was closed and after it was
opened,
⇒P1=P2+12ρV2
⇒3.5×105=3×105+12ρV2
⇒0.5×105×2103=V2
⇒102=V2⇒V=10m/s