Question: Punctured aorta! ( 2 pt ) . During open - heart surgery, a surgeon accidentally tears a circular hole ( 2 mm diameter ) in

Punctured aorta! (2 pt). During open-heart surgery, a surgeon accidentally tears a circular hole (2 mm diameter) in the aorta. The speed of blood flow in the aorta is about 0.33ms, at a pressure of roughly 100 torr above atmospheric pressure.
(a) If that blood squirts straight up into the air, how high will it squirt? (Hint: You can't use the continuity equation because not all of the blood from the aorta comes out of the hole - thankfully!)
(b) If we had assumed the blood in the aorta were static, would this affect the result?

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