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Consider the configuration of a stationary water tank of cross-section area A0 and a small bucket as shown in figure below;



What should be the speed v of the bucket, so that the water leaking out of a hole of cross-section area A (as shown) from the water tank does not fall outside the bucket?


(Take, h=5 m,H=5 m, g=10 m/s2,A=5 cm2 and A0=500 cm2).


PhysicsMechanical Properties of FluidsKVPYKVPY 2019 (SB/SX)
Options:
  • A 1 m/s
  • B 0.5 m/s
  • C 0.1 m/s
  • D 0.05 m/s
Solution:
2750 Upvotes Verified Answer
The correct answer is: 0.1 m/s


Velocity of outflow (efflux) from hole  =2gh.


Range of water jet, 


x=2gh × Time of fall 


=2gh×2Hg=2hH


Velocity v of bucket is 


v=dxdt=ddt2hH


=2H.dhdt


v=2H.12h.dhdt


=Hh.dhdt  ...(i)


Now, using equation of continuity at area A0 and area A, we have 


Av1=A0V


where, v1=2gh


and V=dhdt.


 A2gh=A0dhdt


Substituting for dhdt from Eq (i), we get


v=Hh.AA0.2gh


=55.5500.2×10×5


=110 ms-1


=0.1 ms-1


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