While maneuvering at the scene of a fire, a truck accidently backs over a fire hydrant and

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While maneuvering at the scene of a fire, a truck accidently backs over a fire hydrant and breaks it. The diameter of the water line to the hydrant is 6 in, but due to internal plumbing, the effective diameter at the water outlet is 4 in. If the flow rate of the water leaving the hydrant is 1000 gal/min, what height will the water reach?

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Applied Fluid Mechanics

ISBN: 978-0132558921

7th edition

Authors: Robert L. Mott, Joseph A. Untener

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