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Originally Posted by Artsemis
"There is a pipe coming into the cylinder one foot above the top of it and extending to the bottom to pump out water."
It doesn't take work to life the water over the 3 foot wall of the cylinder?  |
Not if you set up a siphon, no. But I guess "work" here refers to getting all the water up to the exit... by the way, how does a pipe enter something one foot above it? Also, my old thermodynamics professor would tear you apart for not giving units, like F=9.8*1000 of what? Newton? Pounds per cubic foot?
At every lecture he'd mock some poor student who had made a stupid error on one of his exams. We all lived in mortal fear of becoming one of his examples.