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FORCES ON SUBMERGED CURVED AREAS

5.333ft

API- 2
4.331ft

1.661f t

1-1

107

Mg. 5-45
5.55

A 30-mm-diameter steel (y = 77.0 kN/m3) ball covers a 15-mm-diameter hole in the bottom of a chamber in
which gas pressure is 27 000 kPa. What force is required to push the ball up into the chamber?

F = pA + weight of ball = 27 000[00(4) 2/41+ [(1)(x)(14)1(77.0) = 4.780 kN

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