Ahorizontal water jet impinges against a vertical flat plate at 27 ft/s and splashes off the sides in the vertical plane. if a horizontal force of 500 lbf is required to hold the plate against the water stream, determine the volume flow rate of the water. take the density of water to be 62.4 lbm/ft3.

0.59

Explanation:

First, to hold the plate against the water stream, forces must be the same. For that reason, we have to define the force exerted by the water jet in terms of what we need to determine (volume flow rate). Therefore, we need the following definitions:

Then, if we do the force balance and we replace each term by its definition, we can get:

To hold the plate against the water stream, the water flow must be equal to 0.59

a=d/t

a="triangle"v/t

explanation:

a = acceleration