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A liquid is allowed into a tube of truncated cone shape. Identify the correct statement from the following.
PhysicsMechanical Properties of FluidsJIPMERJIPMER 2017
Options:
  • A The speed is high at the wider end and low at the narrow end.
  • B The speed is low at the wider end and high at the narrow end.
  • C The speed is same at both ends in a streamline flow.
  • D The liquid flows with uniform velocity in the tube.
Solution:
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The correct answer is: The speed is low at the wider end and high at the narrow end.
For an incompressible liquid equation of continuity
$A V=\text { constant or } A \propto \frac{1}{V}$
Therefore, at the wider end speed below and at the narrow end speed will be high.

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