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Chapter 15

Fluids


Units of Chapter 15• Density

• Pressure

• Static Equilibrium in Fluids: Pressure and Depth

• Archimedes’ Principle and Buoyancy

• Applications of Archimedes’ Principle

• Fluid Flow and Continuity

• Bernoulli’s Equation

• Applications of Bernoulli’s Equation


15-1 Density

The density of a material is its mass per unit volume:


15-2 PressurePressure is force per unit area:


15-2 Pressure

The same force applied over a smaller area results in greater pressure – think of poking a balloon with your finger and then with a needle.

Consider what happens when you push both a pin and the blunt end of a pen against your skin with the same force. What will determine whether your skin will be punctured?

a) the pressure on your skin

b) the net applied force on your skin

c) both pressure and net applied force are equivalent

d) neither pressure nor net applied force are relevant here

Question 15.2Question 15.2 Too Much PressureToo Much Pressure

Consider what happens when you push both a pin and the blunt end of a pen against your skin with the same force. What will determine whether your skin will be punctured?

a) the pressure on your skin

b) the net applied force on your skin

c) both pressure and net applied force are equivalent

d) neither pressure nor net applied force are relevant here

The net force is the same in both cases. However, in the case of the pin, that force is concentrated over a much smaller area of contact with the skin, such that the pressure is much greater. Because the force per unit area (i.e., pressure) is greater, the pin is more likely to puncture the skin for that reason.

Question 15.2Question 15.2 Too Much PressureToo Much Pressure

You are walking out on a frozen lake and you begin to hear the ice cracking beneath you. What is your best strategy for getting off the ice safely?

a) stand absolutely still and don’t move a muscleb) jump up and down to lessen your contact time

with the icec) try to leap in one bound to the bank of the laked) shuffle your feet (without lifting them) to move

toward shoree) lie down flat on the ice and crawl toward shore

Question 15.3 Question 15.3 On a Frozen LakeOn a Frozen Lake

You are walking out on a frozen lake and you begin to hear the ice cracking beneath you. What is your best strategy for getting off the ice safely?

a) stand absolutely still and don’t move a muscleb) jump up and down to lessen your contact time

with the icec) try to leap in one bound to the bank of the laked) shuffle your feet (without lifting them) to move

toward shoree) lie down flat on the ice and crawl toward shore

As long as you are on the ice, your weight is pushing down. What is important is not the net force on the ice, but the force exerted on a given small area of ice (i.e., the pressure!). By lying down flat, you distribute your weight over the widest possible area, thus reducing the force per unit area.

Question 15.3 Question 15.3 On a Frozen LakeOn a Frozen Lake


15-2 Pressure

Atmospheric pressure is due to the weight of the atmosphere above us.

The pascal (Pa) is 1 N/m2. Pressure is often measured in pascals.


15-2 PressureThere are a number of different ways to describe atmospheric pressure.

In pascals:

In pounds per square inch:

In bars:


Since atmospheric pressure acts uniformly in all directions, we don’t usually notice it.

Therefore, if you want to, say, add air to your tires to the manufacturer’s specification, you are not interested in the total pressure. What you are interested in is the gauge pressure –how much more pressure is there in the tire than in the atmosphere?

15-2 Pressure


Q: why don’t you feel this force?


15-3 Static Equilibrium in Fluids: Pressure and Depth

The increased pressure as an object descends through a fluid is due to the increasing mass of the fluid above it.

Derive this?

Question 15.5Question 15.5 Three ContainersThree Containersa) container 1

b) container 2

c) container 3

d) all three are equal

Three containers are filled with water to the same height and have the same surface area at the base, but the total weight of water is different for each. Which container has the greatest total force acting on its base?

Question 15.5Question 15.5 Three ContainersThree Containers

The pressure at the bottom of each container depends only on the height of water above it! This is the same for all the containers. The total force is the product of the pressure times the area of the base, but because the base is also the same for all containers, the total force is the same.

a) container 1

b) container 2

c) container 3

d) all three are equal

Three containers are filled with water to the same height and have the same surface area at the base, but the total weight of water is different for each. Which container has the greatest total force acting on its base?



A barometer compares the pressure due to the atmosphere to the pressure due to a column of fluid, typically mercury. The mercury column has a vacuum above it, so the only pressure is due to the mercury itself.



This leads to the definition of atmospheric pressure in terms of millimeters of mercury:

In the barometer, the level of mercury is such that the pressure due to the column of mercury is equal to the atmospheric pressure.



This is true in any container where the fluid can flow freely – the pressure will be the same throughout.



Pascal’s principle:

An external pressure applied to an enclosed fluid is transmitted unchanged to every point within the fluid.


15-4 Archimedes’ Principle and Buoyancy

A fluid exerts a net upward force on any object it surrounds, called the buoyant force.

This force is due to the increased pressure at the bottom of the object compared to the top.


15-4 Archimedes’ Principle and Buoyancy

Archimedes’ Principle: An object completely immersed in a fluid experiences an upward buoyant force equal in magnitude to the weight of fluid displaced by the object.


15-5 Applications of Archimedes’ Principle

An object floats when it displaces an amount of fluid equal to its weight.



An object made of material that is denser than water can float only if it has indentations or pockets of air that make its average density less than that of water.



The fraction of an object that is submerged when it is floating depends on the densities of the object and of the fluid.


15-6 Fluid Flow and Continuity

Continuity tells us that whatever the volume of fluid in a pipe passing a particular point per second, the same volume must pass every other point in a second. The fluid is not accumulating or vanishing along the way.

This means that where the pipe is narrower, the flow is faster, as everyone who has played with the spray from a drinking fountain well knows.



Most gases are easily compressible; most liquids are not. Therefore, the density of a liquid may be treated as constant, but not that of a gas.

Question 15.15aQuestion 15.15a Fluid Flow Fluid Flow

a) one-quarterb) one-halfc) the samed) doublee) four times

Water flows through a 1-cm diameter pipe connected to a ½-cm diameter pipe. Compared to the speed of the water in the 1-cm pipe, the speed in the ½ -cm pipe is:

The area of the small pipe is less, so we know that the water will flow faster there. Because AA ∝∝ rr22, when the radius is reduced byradius is reduced by oneone--halfhalf, the area is reduced by onearea is reduced by one--quarterquarter, so the speed must increase by four speed must increase by four timestimes to keep the flow rate ((AA ×× vv)) constant.

Question 15.15aQuestion 15.15a Fluid Flow Fluid Flow

a) one-quarterb) one-halfc) the samed) double

e) four times

Water flows through a 1-cm diameter pipe connected to a ½-cm diameter pipe. Compared to the speed of the water in the 1-cm pipe, the speed in the ½ -cm pipe is:

v1 v2

12

12

Question 15.15bQuestion 15.15b Blood Pressure IBlood Pressure Ia) increases

b) decreases

c) stays the same

d) drops to zero

A blood platelet drifts along with the flow of blood through an artery that is partially blocked. As the platelet moves from the wide region into the narrow region, the blood pressure:

TheThe speed increases in the narrow speed increases in the narrow

partpart, according to the continuity

equation. Because the speed isspeed is

higherhigher, the pressure is lowerpressure is lower, from

Bernoulli’s principle.

Question 15.15bQuestion 15.15b Blood Pressure IBlood Pressure Ia) increases

b) decreases

c) stays the same

d) drops to zero

A blood platelet drifts along with the flow of blood through an artery that is partially blocked. As the platelet moves from the wide region into the narrow region, the blood pressure:

speed is higher herespeed is higher here(so pressure is lower)(so pressure is lower)


15-7 Bernoulli’s EquationWhen a fluid moves from a wider area of a pipe to a narrower one, its speed increases; therefore, work has been done on it.


15-7 Bernoulli’s Equation

The kinetic energy of a fluid element is:

Equating the work done to the increase in kinetic energy gives:



If a fluid flows in a pipe of constant diameter, but changes its height, there is also work done on it against the force of gravity.

Equating the work done with the change in potential energy gives:



The general case, where both height and speed may change, is described by Bernoulli’s equation:

This equation is essentially a statement of conservation of energy in a fluid.


15-8 Applications of Bernoulli’s Equation

This lower pressure at high speeds is what rips roofs off houses in hurricanes and tornadoes, and causes the roof of a convertible to expand upward.



If a hole is punched in the side of an open container, the outside of the hole and the top of the fluid are both at atmospheric pressure.

Since the fluid inside the container at the level of the hole is at higher pressure, the fluid has a horizontal velocity as it exits.



If the fluid is directed upwards instead, it will reach the height of the surface level of the fluid in the container.


15-9 Viscosity and Surface TensionViscosity is a form of friction felt by fluids as they flow along surfaces. We have been dealing with nonviscous fluids, but real fluids have some viscosity.

A viscous fluid will have zero velocity next to the walls and maximum velocity in the center.


15-9 Viscosity and Surface Tension

It takes a force to maintain a viscous flow, just as it takes a force to maintain motion in the presence of friction.

A fluid is characterized by its coefficient of viscosity, η. It is defined so that the pressure difference in the fluid is given by:


Summary of Chapter 15

• Density:

• Pressure:

• Atmospheric pressure:

• Gauge pressure:

• Pressure with depth:



• Archimedes’ principle:

An object completely immersed in a fluid experiences an upward buoyant force equal in magnitude to the weight of fluid displaced by the object.

• Volume of submerged part of object:



• Equation of continuity:

• Bernoulli’s equation:

• Speed of fluid exiting a hole in a container a depth h below the surface:

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