{"id":153509,"date":"2023-07-29T13:29:09","date_gmt":"2023-07-29T07:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=153509"},"modified":"2023-07-29T13:29:13","modified_gmt":"2023-07-29T07:59:13","slug":"a-circular-duct-carrying-water-gradually-contracts-from-a-diameter-of-30-cm-to-15-cm-the-figure-not-drawn-to-scale-shows-the-arrangement-of-differential-manometer-attached-to-the-duct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/a-circular-duct-carrying-water-gradually-contracts-from-a-diameter-of-30-cm-to-15-cm-the-figure-not-drawn-to-scale-shows-the-arrangement-of-differential-manometer-attached-to-the-duct\/","title":{"rendered":"A circular duct carrying water gradually contracts from a diameter of 30 cm to 15 cm. The figure (not drawn to scale) shows the arrangement of differential manometer attached to the duct"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Q. A circular duct carrying water gradually contracts from a diameter of 30 <em>cm <\/em>to 15 <em>cm<\/em>. The figure (<em>not drawn to scale<\/em>) shows the arrangement of differential manometer attached to the duct.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Screenshot-421.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-153510\" width=\"386\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Screenshot-421.png 651w, https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Screenshot-421-300x218.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 386px) 100vw, 386px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>When the water flows, the differential manometer shows a deflection of 8 <em>cm <\/em>of mercury (<em>Hg<\/em>). The values of specific gravity of mercury and water are 13.6 and 1.0, respectively. Consider the acceleration due to gravity, <em>g <\/em>= 9.81 <em>m\/s<sup>2<\/sup><\/em>. Assuming frictionless flow, the flow rate (in <em>m<sup>3<\/sup>\/s<\/em>, <em>round off to 3 decimal places<\/em>) through the duct is_____________<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Solution:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A circular duct carrying water gradually contracts from a diameter of &#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-186.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-153511\" width=\"203\" height=\"409\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-186.png 293w, https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-186-149x300.png 149w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q. A circular duct carrying water gradually contracts from a diameter of 30 cm to 15 cm. The figure (not drawn to scale) shows the arrangement of differential manometer attached to the duct. When the water flows, the differential manometer shows a deflection of 8 cm of mercury (Hg). The values of specific gravity of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":419,"featured_media":153512,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[5141],"tags":[5140],"class_list":["post-153509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gate","tag-gate-questions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/419"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153513,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153509\/revisions\/153513"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}