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12.3 Exercise 11

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The left ventricle of a resting adult’s heart pumps blood at a flow rate of 83.0cm3/s\text{83} . 0 \text{cm}^{3} /\text{s}, increasing its pressure by 110 mm Hg, its speed from zero to 30.0 cm/s, and its height by 5.00 cm. (All numbers are averaged over the entire heartbeat.) Calculate the total power output of the left ventricle. Note that most of the power is used to increase blood pressure.

OpenStax College Physics 2e, 12.3 The Most General Applications of Bernoulli’s Equation, exercise 11

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