Question: A spherical tank has a circular orifice in its bottom through which the liquid flows out. The rate of change of the height H as

A spherical tank has a circular orifice in its bottom through which the liquid flows out. The rate of change of the height H as the liquid flows out through the hole can be estimated as:
dHdt=-CA2gH22rH-H2
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where C= an empirically-derived coefficient, A= the area of the orifice (m2),g= the gravitational constant )=(9.81ms2, and H= the height of liquid in the tank.
Use Midpoint method (referring to the equation below) to determine how long it will take for the water to flow out of a 4m diameter tank with an initial height of 0.25m. Note that the orifice has a diameter of 3.5cm and C=0.55. Use step size of 1 minute (60 seconds). Show the complete calculation steps. Plot the graph.
yi+12=yi+f(xi,yi)h2
yi+12'=f(xi+12,yi+12)
yi+1=yi+f(xi+12,yi+12)h
 A spherical tank has a circular orifice in its bottom through

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