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Poiseuille's Law for Rate of Fluid Flow Poiseuille's law for the rate of flow of a fluid through a tube is a fourth-order polynomial that is also a power function:
where
a. Assume that
b. What is the flow rate through a
c. Suppose that an artery supplying blood to the heart muscle (see Figure
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