Tank Definition and 691 Threads

hellO :D Homework Statement (Q)A large cylindrical tank has a hole of area A at its bottom.Water is poured in the tank by a tube of equal cross-sectional area "A" ejecting water at the speed "v". <a>Water level in the tank will keep on rising <b>No water can be stored in the tank <c>The...

I have a system that consist of a water tank a pump that is pumping into a pressuirsed tank at 100 GPM and another pump at the outlet of the pressurized tank that is pumping to the 6th floor , my question is can I consider the 2 pumps as 2 pumps in series ? , my second question is : is there a...

Homework Statement On the afternoon of January 15, 1919, an unusually warm day in Boston, a 26.0 m high, 27.4 m diameter cylindrical metal tank used for storing molasses ruptured. Molasses flooded the streets in a 9 meter deep stream, killing pedestrians and horses and knocking down buildings...

Hi guys/gals, I have a problem, my maths isn't that great. I have some underground storage tanks with petrol in them. and I can only measure depth of the liquid at the bottom. however i want to know the volume for disposal purposes. Can anyone tell me how to find the volume given the height...

I am working on a Hydro project. Just can't get this right. I have a water tank (cone shaped) with Radius 60 Inches and height 120 Inches. The Tip of the cone has a nozzle with a 3 inch opening. If the Air pressure is ignored. What will be the flow rate of water and pressure. ?

Homework Statement A vertical cylindrical tank of cross-sectional area A_1 is open to the air at the top and contains water to a depth h_0. A worker accidentally pokes a hole of area A_2 in the bottom of the tank. Derive an equation for the depth of the water as a function of time t after...

Homework Statement A tank with a rectangular base and rectangular sides is to be open at the top. It is to be constructed so that its width is 4 meters and its volume is 36 cubic meters. If building the tank covers $10 per square meter for the base and $5 per square meter for the sides, what...

Homework Statement A welder using a tank of volume 8.00X10^-3 m^3 fills it with oxygen (with a molar mass of 32.0 g/mol) at a gauge pressure of 2.80×10^5 Pa and temperature of 39.0 Celsius. The tank has a small leak, and in time some of the oxygen leaks out. On a day when the temperature is...

Homework Statement A tank initially contains 400 gal of brine in which 100 lb of salt are dissolved. Pure water is run into the tank at the rate of 20 gal/min, and the mixture (which is kept uniform by stirring) is drained off at the same rate. How many pounds of salt remain in the tank after...

Homework Statement Take into account the speed of the top surface of the tank and shown that the speed of fluid leaving the opening at the bottom is v1=sqrt(2gh/(1-(A21/A22)) P=Atmospheric pressure d=density v=velocity g=gravity h=height A=Area Homework Equations...

howdy, I have never worked with superconductive circuitry, nor do I know of it's use much past MRI machines with large coils and in its research for transmission lines. What if you were to make a superconducting capacitor, and place it in parallel with a superconducting coil to make a...

I am working on an assignment which is based around studying and designing the control system for a tank which has two inlet flows and one outlet flow. For the purpose of what i am doing, i will be assuming that only one of the inlet flow rates changes. Part of the assignment requires me to...

Ok so this is the question A tank contains 100 kg of salt and 2000 L of water. A solution of a concentration 0.025 kg of salt per liter enters a tank at the rate 5 L/min. The solution is mixed and drains from the tank at the same rate. A.What is the concentration of our solution in the...

a bowl shaped tank is in the shaoe of a hemisphere with a radius of 2 in. If the bowl is filled with water density rho to a depth of 1 in, find the work in pumping the water out fo the tank W=FD V=integral of surface area * height F= rho *V V is the integral of pi(sqrt(4-y^2))^2...

a bowl shaped tank is in the shaoe of a hemisphere with a radius of 2 in. If the bowl is filled with water density rho to a depth of 1 in, find the work in pumping the water out fo the tank W=FD V=integral of surface area * height F= rho *V V is the integral of pi(r-x)^2 from 0-1...

Homework Statement A tank is filled with water to a depth of 1m. A hole of cross section 1 cm^2 at the bottom allows the water to drain out. At what distance below the hole the cross sectional area of the stream is 0.9 times the area of the hole. Homework Equations The Attempt at a...

Homework Statement "Consider the tank and water supply system as shown in the figure below. The diameter of the supply pipe, D1 = 20 mm, and the average velocity leaving the supply pipe is V1 = 0.595 m/s. A shut-off valve is located at z = 0.1 m, and the exit pipe, D2 = 10 mm. The tank...

Suppose you have a cylindrical tank of water that is filled to height h. Total mass of water is M. How do you calculate the potential energy of water relative to the base of the tank?

I have a problem to solve where i am required to linearise a nonlinear system. Basically, the system involves a mixing tank of height H(t) and cross section area A with two input streams with flow rates Q1(t) and Q2(t) with concentrations C1 and C2 of some species (concentrations are constant)...

I use a C02 tank to fill up the tires on my truck. C02 is used because it can store a larger volume of gas in a smaller tank than most other gases. But i have no idea why this would be true. I can actually fill all four 35" tires about four times flat to full with one 10# tank. Nitrogen...

Homework Statement A rigid tank of volume 83 m3 contains 100 kg of H2O at 100oC. The tank is heated until the temperature inside reaches 120oC. Determine the pressure inside the tank at (a) the beginning and (b) the end of the heating process. Homework Equations The Attempt at a...

hi physics forum i am having a issue related to a tank size based on the flow rate and the diameter of the orifice. the dimensions would be the total height of the setup should be 1000mm the flow rate should be 525+/- 25ml/min the Internal diameter of the orifice is 4.3mm what would be...

Homework Statement Finding the volume of a partially full cylindrical tank that lies on it's length. L=6', D=4" Homework Equations pi r sq times L = cu ft when full. Convert to gallons 1 gal. = .1336 cu. ft. (I think) The Attempt at a Solution (pi r sq times L)/2 =...

Hi all, I am trying to work out the initial velocity of dry air, through a 3" opening in a pressurized tank (150 psi). I thought I should use Bernoulli's eq. as a start: P=1/2*rho*V^2 by changing the formula to give velocity, V = sqrt(P*2/rho) Then I realized there was no time value in...

Homework Statement A tank with a capacity of 400 L is full of a mixture of water and chlorine with a concentration of 0.05 g of chlorine/liter. The chlorine concentration is to be reduced by pumping in fresh water at the rate of 4 liters/second. The mixture is kept stirred and pumped out a...

OK so that is the problem and there is an obvious vehicle modification to counter the roll-over problem which is to fit stabilisers, adopting the same concept employed in a child's bicycle. http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/3770/stabilisedmrap.jpg The simplest and cheapest way to do this...

Homework Statement A 300-gal capacity tank contains a solution of 200 gals of water and 50 lbs of salt. A solution containing 3 lbs of salt per gallon is allowed to flow into the tank at the rate of 4gal/min. The mixture flows from the tank at the rate of 4 gal/min. The mixture flows from the...

Hello, Now that I have an actual problem (in summer work) I thought I'd take the step from occasional forum lurking to actually post. A customer have recently had some problems with moisture in a tank of insulating SF6 gas, protecting some 300kV electronics. Allow me to outline the...

1. A tank is formed by revolving y = 3x^2, x = [0,2] around the y-axis is filled to the 4 feet point with water (w = 62.4 lb/ft^3). Find the work necessary to pump the water out of the tank over the top. I got the integral being from a = 0 and b = 4 and integrating [(12y-y^2)/3]dy with w and...

Homework Statement Find the work done in pumping all the water out of a conical reservoir of radius 10ft at the top and altitude 8ft if at the beginning the reservoir is filled to a depth of 5ft and the water is pumped just to the top of the reservoir. Homework Equations None The Attempt at a...

Homework Statement A concave astronomical telescope mirror may be made by rotating a circular tank of mercury. Find an expression for the shape of the surface in terms of the density of mercury, the radius from the centre, and the rotation rate. Homework Equations v = r \omega The...

I've watched the videos and read a lot of posts on here about compressed air storage. I read that a filled scuba tank has over a million joules? I'm trying to visualize what happens if you suddenly release all the energy from that tank, it should be enough to move or brake/stop a sizable...

Homework Statement "A tank can be filled in 6 hours using 2 pipes. The larger pipe alone would fill it 5 hours sooner than the smaller pipe alone. How long would each pipe alone take?" Homework Equations I know it involves a quadratic not sure on the rest... I can't see how to do...

OK so maybe this is kind of a dumb question, but my curiosity has been killing me so I thought I'd post this here and see if someone with expertise in physics can help me. I'm a history buff, and a friend of mine mentioned a story he heard about a Napoleonic War-era cannon being pulled out of...

Homework Statement A rectangular opening is cut into the side of a large open-topped water tank. The opening has width w and height h2-h1, where h1 and h2 are distances of the opening below the water surface as identified in the figure. Determine the volume V of water that emerges from the...

Hey guys, I was wondering if anyone knew where I could buy tank gauges that read both the pressure and temperature inside the tank. They can be digital, in fact if it is cheap enough it would be preferred. Does anybody have any ideas? Northern Tool at least the one here didn't, Lowe's didn't...

Homework Statement How many 3L balloons can you fill from a 20L tank of helium at a pressure of 14.4atm. Homework Equations Boyle's Law: P_{1}V_{1}=P_{2}V_{2} The Attempt at a Solution \frac{14.4atm\times20L}{1atm}=V_{2} I then divided the answer to thank by 3 to get the amount...

Homework Statement Water flows steadily from an open tank. The elevation of point 1 is 10.0 m, and the elevation of points 2 and 3 is 2.00 m. The cross-sectional area at point 2 is 0.0480 m^2 ; at point 3 it is 0.0160 m^2 . The area of the tank is very large compared with the cross-sectional...

nm i got it figured out.

I want to calculate the difference in temp between the bottom & top of a hot water tank, Presumably the height of the tank, the diameter, the actual temp and time would be the variables. I will assume no heat loss. The heat input would be at the base of the tank.

I am currently doing an acoustic experiment, testing the sloshing noise made by the fluid content in a tank. My software and microphone gives me all the outputs from the sloshing noise but not the loudness calculation. I am needing a figure for every test to key into my statistical software and...

So a particularly dumb client has decided that before I can work for them I have to pass a high school maths test. Never having had to do US school tests I looked at some practice questions, including: "Two identical taps fill 2/5 of a tank in 20 minutes. When one of the taps goes dry in how...

Goodday . i wonder if anyone can help with this . I looking for the formula to the below problem inorder to use same to transpose in case i shoild need the pipe size in another case Two tanks , tank A and tank B. How much time in hours to fill tank B. Where Tank A is a full water tank(...

Homework Statement Water is leaking out an inverted conical tank at the rate of 50L/min. The tank has a diameter of 10m at the top and is 6m deep. if the water is rising at the rate of 4cm/min when the greatest depth is 3m, find the rate at which the water is being poured into the tank...

Does anyone know how to calculate the mass of compressed hydrogen tank at certain pressure. The tank is cylindrical with hemispherical ends. I have pressure,radius,wall thickness and length,internal volume and density of the material. The tank is a Type IV tank.(Composite tank with...

Homework Statement Tank is 10m x 1m x 1m Tank is full of water. What is the maximum pressure acting on the Tank? What is the maximum force acting on the sides of the tank which could cause bending of the tank? Homework Equations Pressure = l*g*h where P = water pressure (hydrostatic) l =...

Homework Statement A water pipe feeds a water tower with water. The tower is 15 metres tall. If the water is to flow into the tank what is the minimum pressure of water at the bottom of the tower? Assume litre of water = 1 kg Assume 1 BAR = 1kg cm-2 Homework Equations P = p g h ? The...

Homework Statement Find the work required to empty a tank in the shape of a hemisphere of radius R meters through an outlet at the top of the tank. The density of water is p kg/m^{3}; the acceleration of a free falling body is g. (Ignore the length of the outlet at the top.) The attempt...

Hello, everyone. I am trying to calculate the pressure acting at the vertical wall of a cylinder water tank. I am wondering whether the presure acting on the wall is as follow: Pressure = Density * gravity * height where height is from the water surface to the calculation point...

In a ripple tank experiment, students generate water waves at a speed of 4.0 cm/s and a wavelength of 0.5 cm. If the waves are refracted into shallower water where their speed decreases to 3.0 cm/s, what is their new wavelength? What would the formula be for this question?