Tank Definition and 691 Threads

An aquarium 2 m long, 1 m wide, and 1 m deep is full of water. Find the work needed to pump half the water out of the aquarium. (The density of water, p, is 1000 kg/m3, and acceleration due to gravity, g, is 9.8 m/s2.) So in order to truly understand how to do these kind of problems I decided...

Hello I have a question please i am not sure about. I work with this machine as a operator but would like to learn more. 1. I have attached a picture of a juice separator tank. The juice enters the separator where the liquid goes to the bottom of the tank and the vapour rises to the top...

Homework Statement The problem states that at time 0 the tank has 10 lb of salt dissolved in 100 gallons of water. The capacity is 200. Assume that water containing 1/8 lb of salt per gallon is entering the tank at a rate of 2 gal/min and the mizture is draining from the tank at a rate of 1...

Homework Statement A water hose is used to fill a large cylindrical storage tank of diameter D and height 2D. The hose shoots water at 45 degrees above the horizontal from the same level as the base of the tank and is at a distance 6D away. For what range of launch speeds will the water enter...

Hi all, I got the system (attached below) and I am trying to work out the following (at point x-outflow): -net head of the system (I guess this isn't really at point x) -flow rate -pressure I know the flowrate and pressure at point Y, I also know how high the water in the tank is at...

how to measure water level in a tank?? How to measure water level in tank in the cheapest way? The first thing that came to my mind is pressure sensor... but it's ruled out because it's expensive. Can somebody suggest a cheaper mechanism? And it is preferred to have a low power mechanism...

Measuring water level in tank...?? How to measure water level in tank in the cheapest way? The first thing that came to my mind is pressure sensor... but it's ruled out because it's expensive. Can somebody suggest a cheaper mechanism? And it is preferred to have a low power mechanism...

Hello guys, I want to know whether the water flow rate from a tank depends on the geometrical shape of the tank (for instance sperical, rectangular, cylindrical) etc or it just depends on the water level in the tank. Thanx.

Homework Statement A fish in a flat-sided aquarium sees a can of fish food on the counter. To the fish's eye, the can looks to be 49 cm outside the aquarium. What is the actual distance between the can and the aquarium? (You can ignore the thin glass wall of the aquarium.) Homework...

Homework Statement If a tank holds 5,000 gallons of water which drains from the bottom of the tank in 40 minutes, then Torricelli's Law gives the volume V of water reminaing in the tank after t minutes as V = 5000(1 - t / 40)2, 0 <= t <= 40. The rate at which water is draining from...

Homework Statement 1) The water level in a large tank supplying a small town is 37m high. Water is pumped up for storage in the evenings and allowed to free-fall down as needed during the day. The street-level water pressure is... 2) How high should a vertical pipe filled with water be if a...

Hi, i am interested to know the major components of the fuel system of a car. I know, these are the major ones: Fuel Tank, Fuel Pump, Fuel Filter, Injector Valve, Return Lines but what i am interested is in the fuel system for (1) a single cylinder engine, (2) no carburetor (instead, i am...

an unpressurised cylyndrical storage tank has a thin wall of 5mm thickness and is made of steel with a maximum strength of 400Mpa in tension the tank radius is 3.75m the tanks height is 20m (the tank is standing on its base like a tower) Determine the maximum height it may be filled with water...

Imagine a fuel tank that can store fuel at pressure (it can store at pretty high pressure also) without having any component which provides it constant energy e.g. a pump (i.e energy has been previously fed into the system so as to maintain the pressure in the tank regardless of it's fuel...

I have a large circular tank made of concrete that has a volume of 9,300,000 litres. The diameter of the tank is 48.7 meters. The side wall of the tank has a height of 4.57 meters. The tank is set into the ground by 3.57 meters and 1 meter of the tank protrudes from the ground. The tanks'...

can it is possible to build or make a water pump like this http://forums.about.com/n/docs/docDownload.aspx?webtag=ab-physics&guid=435b1342-00eb-4166-a03b-97355a063e9c pls help me on this...... can anyone give me a better drawing of this with meausrments. my email is...

Here in the NW most homes are or were heated by oil. The biggest cost of switching to gas (as geothermal is very expensive) is decommissioning the old buried oil tank, in many cases up to 675 gal. cap. I was pondering weather the old tank could be filled with a solution and somehow figure out...

How do you calculate the thickness or gauge of a given metal (304 Stainless Steel for example) for a 36" dia. round, vertical cylinder water holding tank? If filled say the tank would be 25-30 feet tall. No physical pressure (pumps or vacuum) on this vessel (vented to atmosphere). Flat...

1. A cylindrical open tank needs cleaning. The tank is filled with water to a height meter, so you decide to empty it by letting the water flow steadily from an opening at the side of the tank, located near the bottom. The cross-sectional area of the tank is square meters, while that of the...

If a cylindrical tank of radius 1m rests on a platform 5m above the ground. Initially the tank is filled with water up to a height 5m. A plug whose area is 10-4m2 removed from an orifice on the side of the tank at the bottom.(density of water = 103kg/m3, g= 10m/s2). i wanted to ask what would...

Homework Statement I am building a tank to produce waves. I have two options to power the flap that will be produced to create the waves: 1. Pneumatic system 2. Motor and Cam system Before I can order motors or pneumatic air cylinders I need to know what force will be required to move...

[b]1. The problem. Okay, here's the question: 'An air bubble situated at the bottom of an open kerosene tank rises to the top surface. It is observed that at the top, the volume of the bubble is thrice it's initial volume. If the atmospheric pressure is 72cm of Hg, and mercury is 17 times...

Force of a Tank Hatch in terms of Pressure Homework Statement The tank shown in the figure below is filled with water to a depth of H1 = 1.88 m. http://educog.com/res/brookscole/serway/Physics_for_Scientists_and_Engineers_6ed/Chap14/graphics/serb1514.gif At the bottom of one of the side...

Homework Statement A tank is initially filled with 1000 litres of brine, containing 0.15 kg of salt per litre. Fresh brine containing 0.25 kg of salt per litre runs into the tank at the rate of 4 litres per second, and the mixture (kept uniform by stirring) runs out at the same rate. Show...

Homework Statement A closed tank contains a liquid of density \rho and a gas (over the liquid) at a pressure P. Suppose there's a little hole (much smaller than the cross section of the tank so that when the liquid flows by the hole, the height of the liquid doesn't change with time) in the...

Submarines are nuclear powered. How small of a nuclear-fission powered unit be made and could it be fitted inside a tank or other land vehicles?

Hi All, I have a question about the agitator tank. What is the different between dish-bottom, flat-bottom and cone-bottom tank? Regards.

Thank you for any help that you can give me. I am very bad at differential equations and this one is really stumping me. Homework Statement A tank contains 2740 L of pure water. A solution that contains 0.05 kg of sugar per liter enters a tank at the rate 3 L/min The solution is mixed and...

Homework Statement This is more of a question: In class, we solved an example with water leaving a tank from a faucet on the side and near the bottom. The result was v=(2gz)^(1/2)... the Torricelli equation. What I am wondering is if the solution would change if the faucet were located at...

Is it possible to give a strategy for the combined problem of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_tank_problem and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_problem So I'm observing tanks with serial numbers and I'm allowed only the keep the last one. I also don't know how many there are in...

Homework Statement A welder fills a tank, volume 7.60 x 10^-2 m^3, with oxgyen (32.0 g/mol) at gauge pressure 3.25 x 10^5 Pa and temp. 36.0 degrees C. The tank has a small leak, and some of the oxygen leaks. When temp. is 22.4 degrees C, pressure of oxygen in tank is 1.80 x 10^5 Pa. Find...

A tank contains 4000L of pure water. Brine that contains 30g of salt per liter of water is pumped into the tank at a rate of 25L/min. Show that the concentration of salt after t minutes (in grams per liter) is C(t) = 30t/160+t What happens to the concentration as t --> infinity lim C(t)=...

Homework Statement Suppose water is leaking from a tank through a circular hole of area Ah at its bottom. When water leaks through a hole, friction and contraction of the stream near the hole reduce the volume of water leaving the tank per second to cA_{h}\sqrt{2gh}, where c (0 < c < 1) is a...

Homework Statement We have a tank of air at 7 atm, 30 L, and 293 Kelvin(20 Celsius), and a flat tire with 1atm, 10 L (Constant), also at 293 K (20 C). The valve is opened quickly and closed quickly when the pressure in the tank reaches 6 atm. Using the Ideal gas assumption and taking the...

This is probably the longest problem I've ever had. #12. Check my work, please. I'm a bit leery of the solution to the salt content, y(t), for Tank B simply because it seems quite complicated. The first part wasn't too bad, though...

Can someone please tell me whether the following statements are wrong or right? this is not homework: 1. Voltage sources, like batteries, have a low impedance (ideally zero) 2. A good car battery's impedance (even with alternating current going through the battery) is typically far less than a...

Hey guy this is my first post here. I am looking for a little bit of help with a past paper I've been looking over. I've had a look at it and I am drawing a blank due to being off ill when this was covered in class, if anyone would be so kind as to show me how to get started on this question I...

Heat loss from an insulated water tank ----- Thermodynamics Hi and thanks in advance for any help with this problem. If I have a very very well insulated tank of water of say 4 litres. If we could assume that the tank had no heat loss... The tank is heated by an electrical device that...

Here is an invention I'd like to share with anyone who has the money to develop and market it. Furthermore, I don't even have the technical skill to determine if it's viable on paper so I suppose it's reasonable to say that anyone who pursues this is entitled not to share anything with me...

Suppose a company has developed a modification for almost all types of tanks such that when the tank is filled with an incoming fluid (which is at a certain pressure), it stores this pressure and uses it to take the fluid out of the tank with pressure, i.e even if the tank is at low altitude it...

ok so it has been a few years since I have worked on things like this and I am needing some help I have a CO2 tank that weighs 22.17 oz's when full. There is 9 oz's of CO2 in the tank. The problem I am working on is that I need to find out how far the tank will go when the safety burst...

I have built a parallel LC resonator to tune into a specific frequency. the frequency I am tuning into is 60Hz. The problem I am having is that I matched the value of the inductor and the value of the capacitor to match at that frequency within certain tolerance, And the is no signal being...

Hi all, I hope this is right place to post this question (this is not a homework question). I wanted to find out in what time a tank under low pressure (gas/air) is filled by the atmospheric pressure through a restriction. (Tankpressure in relation of time or Flowrate through the...

tank and a hole in it what's the speed?? Homework Statement A careless worker at a refinery accidentally punches a hole in a gasoline tank 47.4 m below the surface of the gasoline. The tank had been sealed under 3.07 atm of absolute pressure and the density of the liquid is 659 kg/m3.If the...

Homework Statement A tank of height h full of water with it's base 40 meters from the ground, with a hole on the lateral wall at the base. The water comes out of the tank at 6.93 m/s to fill a pool on the ground. The water hits the center of the pool at a distance of 19.5 meters measured...

Hey. Quick question. If we have a compressed air tank of 550 kPa with a opening area of 0.25 cm^2, would the force provided just be P*A so it'd just be 550 * 0.25 (with appropriate conversions to metres and pascals etc). We are looking for the force that'd be provided to a model car that the...

help Calculus! Homework Statement got this question, and i need help. lost it lol. this is the sort of question i have to do for me assignment. Help in going through it Homework Equations Hot metal storage tank: is rectangle with a square cross section total surface area is...

I wish to build an underground water holding tank. It will be 12’ wide by 12’ long by 10’ high. It will be constructed out of reinforced concrete. My figures show the box to be 1440 cubic feet, 10,771.2 gallons, and 89,827 Lbs. or 44.91 tons. The container will be buried in the ground...

Brief description: I have a three tank system (A,B,C). Tank A is fitted with stand pipes with the over flow flowing down and then up through the bottom of a 1" bulkhead fitting and into Tank B. Tank B is approx. 12' x 2' x 12". At the end of Tank B is another 1" bulkhead fitting with the exit...

Homework Statement We have a tank with some gel and it will be emptied into another empty tank. The air in the first tank wil stay in the first tank. The air in the second tank will stay in the second tank. What is the equilibrium height of the solution inside the tank. also, see Excel...