Many recreation facilities use inflatable “bubble” structures. A tennis bubble to enclose four courts is shaped roughly as a circular semicylinder with a diameter of 50 ft and a length of 50 ft. The blowers used to inflate the structure can maintain the air pressure inside the bubble at 0.75 in. of water above ambient pressure. The bubble is subjected to a wind that blows at 35 mph in a direction perpendicular to the axis of the semicylindrical shape. Using polar coordinates, with angle θ measured from the ground on the upwind side of the structure, the resulting pressure distribution may be expressed as
where p is the pressure at the surface, p∞ the atmospheric pressure, and Vw the wind speed. Determine the net vertical force exerted on the structure.
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