The sheet metal is submerged horizontally in 8 feet of water. find the fluid force on the top side.

Question

The area of the top side of a piece of sheet metal is given. The sheet metal is submerged horizontally in 8 feet of water. find the fluid force on the top side.

3 square feet

Answer 1

Step 1:

Fluid force on submerged sheet:

The sheet metal is submerged horizontally in 8 feet of water.

The weight density of water pounds per cubic foot.

Total area of the sheet is square feet.

Formula for fluid force is , where is pressure and is area.

The fluid pressure is

pounds per square feet.

pounds.

Solution:

Fluid force pounds.