Water flowing in and out of a bucket

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A cylindrical bucket is being filled with water at a rate of 2 * 10^(-3) m^3/s while simultaneously leaking from a small hole at the bottom. The diameter of the bucket is 1.5 m, and the hole has a diameter of 3 cm. The water level will stop rising when the inflow rate equals the outflow rate through the hole. To find the height at which this equilibrium occurs, Bernoulli's equation and the area-velocity relationship (A1v1 = A2v2) can be applied. The solution involves calculating the velocity of water exiting the hole and determining the height h based on the pressure difference.
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A cylindrical bucket is being filled with water at the rate of 2 * 10^(-3) m^3/s. The bucket itself is od diameter 1.5 m and height 2.5 m. The bucket has a small circular hole at the bottom, with diameter 3 cm. Therefore even as the bucket is being filled, there is a leakage from the bottom. At first, the water rises in the bucket. Eventually, the water stops rising when it reaches a height of h. At this point the leakage from the bottom of the bucket equals the water intake from the tap. Find this height h.


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I am not sure, we barely covered this in my class. I'm guessing A1v1 = A2v2 and Bernoulli's equation come into play somehow.


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I really haven't attempted it because as I stated we did really go over this so much in my class.


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