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A 7 cm orifice meter is being used to measure the flowrate of 50C water. The mercury manometer shows a height of ...

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The solution provides step-by-step calculations, diagram, explanations on Bernoulli equation applied for this orifice problem.

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Applying Bernoulli equation to a streamline traveling down the axis of the horizontal tube gives:

where location 1 is upstream of the orifice, and location 2 is slightly behind the orifice. It is recommended ...

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