Jane goes to a juice bar with her friend Neil. She is thinking of ordering her f

Question

Jane goes to a juice bar with her friend Neil. She is thinking of ordering her favorite drink, a mixture of 7/8 orange juice and 1/8 cranberry juice. However, the drink is not on the menu, so she decides to order a glass of orange juice and a glass of cranberry juice and do the mixing herself.

The drinks come in two identical tall glasses; to avoid spilling while mixing the two juices, Jane shows Neil something she learned that day in class. She drinks about 1/8 of the orange juice, then takes the straw from the glass containing the cranberry juice, sucks up just enough cranberry juice to fill the straw, and, while covering the top of the straw with her thumb, carefully bends the straw and places the end over the orange juice glass. After she releases her thumb, the cranberry juice flows through the straw into the orange juice glass until it is filled to the brim.

In effect, Jane has successfully designed a siphon.

Assume that the glass containing cranberry juice has a very large diameter with respect to the diameter of the straw and that the cross-sectional area of the straw is the same at all points. Let the atmospheric pressure be pa and assume that the cranberry juice has negligible viscosity.

QUESTION: Consider the end of the straw from which the cranberry juice is flowing into the glass containing orange juice, and let

Explanation / Answer

V=sqrt(2gh0)

Related Questions

Navigate

• Browse (All)
• Browse J
• Subjects

Integrity-first tutoring: explanations and feedback only — we do not complete graded work. Learn more.