I've been trying to do this problem but I keep getting answers that don't make sense:
The ocean liner Titanic lies under 12,500 feet of water at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.
Set up and calculate an integral giving the total force on a circular porthole (window) of diameter 6 feet standing vertically with its center at the depth of the Titanic.
This is what I came up with assuming that pressure of water is 62.4 lb/ft^3
i came up with the integral for total force on the slice to be:
the integral from 12497 to 12,503 of 124.8h*(9-h^2)
If someone could tell me where I'm wrong that would help out a lot
ps. I got 9-h^2 from doing pythagorean theorem where r^2+h^2=3^2
Then since that was the radius I multiplied it two for the formula of the area of each horizontal slice.
2007-02-18
07:34:56
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