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70 (a).

Problem 15.27E (HRW)

To suck lemonade of density 1000 kg/m-3up a straw to a maximum height of 4 cm, what minimum gauge pressure must be produced in the lungs?

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Pressure in the lung plus the pressure due to 4 cm column of lemonade of density 1000 kg/m-3 has to be equal to the atmospheric pressure in order that we may be able to suck lemonade using a straw to a maximum height of 4 cm. This condition gives the algebraic relation

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Solving this equation, we find