Recent content by Anton Zhyzhyn

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    Column of water, vacuum pressure and a one-way valve problem

    A conceptual problem related to a design I'm working on: If I use a pump to suck air out of the top of a vertical pipe, with the bottom of the pipe in water, I can only make the water rise around 10 metres inside the pipe, if I produce a perfect vacuum. Now let's say the pipe was 100m long and...