In the movie The Drowning Pool, private detective Lew Harper (played by Paul Newman) is trapped by
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In the movie The Drowning Pool, private detective Lew Harper (played by Paul Newman) is trapped by the bad guy in a room containing a swimming pool. The room may be considered rectangular, 5 meters wide by 15 meters long, with an open skylight window 10 meters above the floor. There is a single entry to the room, reached by a stairway: a locked 2-m high by 1-m wide door, whose bottom is 1 meter above the floor. Harper knows that his enemy will return in eight hours and decides he can escape by filling the room with water and floating up to the skylight. He plugs the drain with his clothes, turns on the water valves, and puts his plan into action.
Assume that water enters the room at about 10 times the rate at which it enters an average bathtub and that the door can withstand a maximum force of 4500 newtons. Estimate (i) whether the door will break before the room fills and (ii) whether Harper has time to escape if the door holds. State any assumptions you make.
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Elementary Principles of Chemical Processes
ISBN: 978-1119498759
4th edition
Authors: Richard M. Felder, Ronald W. Rousseau, Lisa G. Bullard