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Consider the configuration of a stationary water tank of cross-section area and a small bucket as shown in figure below;

What should be the speed of the bucket, so that the water leaking out of a hole of cross-section area (as shown) from the water tank does not fall outside the bucket?
(Take, and ).
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Velocity of outflow (efflux) from hole .
Range of water jet,
Time of fall
Velocity of bucket is
Now, using equation of continuity at area and area , we have
where,
and .
Substituting for from Eq , we get
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