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Mokha75
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Hi guys, new to the forum here.
I have of a conceptual question that I can't wrap my head around.
Here's the situation: there's a reservoir filled with water attached to a "three-column manometer" with each column open to the atmosphere. The horizontal tube that connects all three of the columns at the bottom, has a valve at the end. The valve is in the closed position and then opened to let the water run through.
What I would like to know is when we do this, for a given time period, why do see the water in the column closest to the valve (column 3 below) have a greater change in height as compared to the column closest to the reservoir (column 1)?
Hope I'm making sense
here's my lame attempt at drawing the apparatus:
(__Reservoir__)-------I--------------I-------------I--valve
Column 1 Column 2 Column 3
I have of a conceptual question that I can't wrap my head around.
Here's the situation: there's a reservoir filled with water attached to a "three-column manometer" with each column open to the atmosphere. The horizontal tube that connects all three of the columns at the bottom, has a valve at the end. The valve is in the closed position and then opened to let the water run through.
What I would like to know is when we do this, for a given time period, why do see the water in the column closest to the valve (column 3 below) have a greater change in height as compared to the column closest to the reservoir (column 1)?
Hope I'm making sense
here's my lame attempt at drawing the apparatus:
(__Reservoir__)-------I--------------I-------------I--valve
Column 1 Column 2 Column 3