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Grade 12th PassGeneral Physics

tell me tis ans. in a laboratary rotameter why there is fixed vertically?

Profile image of MD YAKUB PASHA
10 Years agoGrade 12th Pass
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Profile image of Ashutosh Mohan Sharma
10 Years ago
When fluid or gas flows through a taper tube containing a float, a pressure difference of P1 and P2 is created between upper and lower side of the float. The float moves upwards by a force obtained by multiplying the pressure differential by the maximum cross sectional area of the float.

and we can not calculate the pressure difference at horizontal level that’s why it is kept vertically.