(a) What is the pressure difference required to make blood flow through an artery of inner radius...

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(a) What is the pressure difference required to make blood flow through an artery of inner radius 2.0 mm and length 0.20 m at a speed of 6.0 cm/s?
(b) What is the pressure difference required to make blood flow at 0.60 mm/s through a capillary of radius 3.0 μ m and length 1.0 mm?
(c) Compare both answers to your average blood pressure, about 100 torr?
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Physics

ISBN: 978-0077339685

2nd edition

Authors: Alan Giambattista, Betty Richardson, Robert Richardson

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