Q.

Water flows in a horizontal pipe whose one end is closed with a valve. The reading of the pressure guage attached to the pipe is P1. The reading of the pressure gauge falls to P2 when the valve is opened. The speed of water flowing in the pipe is proportional to         [2025]

1 P1P2  
2 (P1P2)2  
3 (P1P2)4  
4 P1P2  

Ans.

(1)

Using Bernoulli's theorem

P1P2=12ρv2

vP1P2