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Grade 11General Physics

A pump of power P is used to pump water in a certain pipe at a certain rate. To pump twice as much water through the same pipe in the same time,the power of the pump must be increased to ?

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8 Years agoGrade 11
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Profile image of Arun
8 Years ago
Dear Sanket
 
Power of a pump = ½ * \rho A v^3
 
to get twicw amount of water from same pipe, v has to bw made twice.
 
Hence new power should be 8 times
 
 
Regards
Arun (askIITians forum expert)