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86. One way to administer an inoculation is with
a “gun” that shoots the vaccine through a narrow opening. No needle is
necessary, for the vaccine emerges with sufficient speed to pass directly
into the tissue beneath the skin. The speed is high, because the vaccine (ρ
= 1100 kg/m3) is held in a reservoir where a high pressure pushes
it out. The pressure on the surface of the vaccine in one gun is 4.1 x 106
Pa above the atmospheric pressure outside the narrow opening. The dosage is
small enough that the vaccine’s surface in the reservoir is nearly stationary
during an inoculation. The vertical height between the vaccine’s surface in
the reservoir and the opening can be ignored. Find
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Bernoulli’s equation is |
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We assume 1 is the gun
reservoir and 2 is the air right above the skin. Make the assumption the speed of the
vaccine inside the gun reservoir is zero, v1 = 0 and the heights h1
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Solve for v2 |
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P1 is the amount of
pressure in the gun reservoir which is atmosphere
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