Question: 1 . ( { mathbf { 2 5 } mathbf { p t s } } ) Water jets

1.\(\{\mathbf{25}\mathbf{p t s}\}\) Water jets are used by many types of industries and by contractors who provide specialty-cleaning services (Figure 1). They are also widely used by the surface prep industry to remove all sorts of paints and coatings. Water jets can be easily purchased, however a supporting structure must be designed and built to keep the water jet stationary. A supporting structure needs to be attached to the flange at point 1 in the figure.
Figure 1. Schematic of the water jet. Note, this is a plane view of the water jet. The viewer is looking down on the water jet, along the z -axis.
Problem: As the engineer for the specialty cleaning services, you are tasked with determining the forces needed to hold the water jet stationary at the flange (point 1). The following requirements and constraints for the design of the structure are as follows. The water flows through the elbow of the jet and exits to the atmosphere at point 2. The pipe diameter is \(\mathrm{D}_{1}=1\mathrm{~m}\) while \(\mathrm{D}_{2}=0.5\mathrm{~m}\). At a flowrate of \(1.0\mathrm{~m}^{3}/\mathrm{s}\), the pressure is \(\mathrm{P}_{1}=233\mathrm{kPa}\)(gage). The weight of the empty elbow is 2 kN , and the volume of water in the bend is \(1.5\mathrm{~m}^{3}\).
Your solution must be presented in Cartesian Vector Notation (3 components).
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