An open horizontal tank 2 m high, 2 m wide and 4 m long is full of water. Determine the amount of water spilled out when the tank is accelerated horizontally at 2.45 m/s2 in a direction parallel with its longest side in m3. Find the force acting on the side with the greatest depth in kN.
An open horizontal tank 2 m high, 2 m wide and 4 m long is full of water. Determine the amount of water spilled out when the tank is accelerated horizontally at 2.45 m/s2 in a direction parallel with its longest side in m3. Find the force acting on the side with the greatest depth in kN.
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An open horizontal tank 2 m high, 2 m wide and 4 m long is full of water.
- Determine the amount of water spilled out when the tank is accelerated horizontally at 2.45 m/s2 in a direction parallel with its longest side in m3.
- Find the force acting on the side with the greatest depth in kN.
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- Please write the final answer in two decimal places.
- Please write the correct unit
- Please write legibly
- It would be better if the solution could be typewritten
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