A group of friends regularly enjoys white-water rafting, and they bring piston water guns to shoot water

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A group of friends regularly enjoys white-water rafting, and they bring piston water guns to shoot water from one raft to another. One summer they notice that when on placid slack water (no current), after just a few volleys at each other, they are drifting apart. They wonder whether the jet being ejected out of a piston gun has enough momentum to force the shooter and raft backward. To answer this question,

a. Sketch a CV, an FD, and an MD for this system.
b. Calculate the momentum flux (N) generated by ejecting water with a flow rate of 3 gal/s from a cross section of 1.7 in.

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Engineering Fluid Mechanics

ISBN: 9781118880685

11th Edition

Authors: Donald F. Elger, Barbara A. LeBret, Clayton T. Crowe, John A. Robertson

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