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Originally Posted by predator
for those not familiar with this effect it is simply if you pass a fluid past a perpendicular (90 degree) pipe it will cause a vacuum pull fluids from the other pipe...
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predator and folks: Please excuse me here but pred's statement is substantially incorrect.
Per predator "perpendicular pipe" the velocity of the medium must be such that the kinetic energy is greater than than the potential energy.
Torricelli's equation* is the very simplistic equalization of potential energy to kinetic energy in non real world environment.
Bernoulli's equation is the general form of energy transformation from potential to kinetic in the real world although this equation does not set forth specific heat losses.
For all the folks out there who have given me grief please google for the words and my assertions will become intuitively obvious.
TR
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mgh = potential energy
1/2(mv^2) = kinetic energy