Physics Technology Update (4th Edition)

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ISBN 10: 0-32190-308-0
ISBN 13: 978-0-32190-308-2

Chapter 15 - Fluids - Problems and Conceptual Exercises - Page 536: 97

Answer

$41Km$

Work Step by Step

We know that $P_{max}=P_{at}+\rho_{earth}gh_{max}$ This can be rearranged as: $h_{max}=\frac{P_{max}-P_{at}}{\rho_{earth}g}$ We plug in the known values to obtain: $h_{max}=\frac{1.2\times 10^9-1.01\times 10^5}{(3.0\times 10^3)(9.81)}=41Km$
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