convert liters/hour to meters/sec.

How would you convert Liters/hour to meters/sec?

[Geoff Hayes]

Morne - please clarify if you want to convert the Litres to metres cubed rather than metres.

[Image Analyst]

Are you filling a tank? And you want to know how fast the liquid level in the tank rises? If so, you'd need to also know the area of the tank. Or do you have a nozzle and want to estimate output velocity as a function of fluid flow? Please provide some context, but ONLY after you read this link.

And, is this your homework? Or not?

[Walter Roberson]

Or perhaps it is a rocket system and you need to convert liters/hours of fuel to output velocity knowing the original mass of the rocket and the density of the fuel and the specific impulse of the fuel ?

[Morne' Breitenbach]

I'm not actually sure whether it is graded or not, which means I don't know if this question lies in the homework side or the non-homework side of things, but, to to ease your concerns I figured it out myself after a bit more research while waiting for a responce.

I wanted to convert from liters/hour to meters/second (<-- Here you go Geoff Hayes). To find out how fast a fuild is flowing in a pipe and I know its volumetric flow rate is 10,000 L/h.

First step:

Convert the liters to meters cubed(m^3). To do this we take the amount of liters(10,000) and multiply it by 0.001( as 1 liter is 0.001 m^3), this gives us 10m^3.

next:

Because this is a pipe we have to know the radius(0.025 m).

Now we can use (m^3/h) divided by all of radius squared times 3,600 times pi to find our m/s

This looks like: (m^3) / (r^2 * 3,600 * pi) = m/s

pluging in the numbers we get: (10) / ( 0.025^2 * 3,600 * pi) = 1.415 m/s.

and we are done!!

Thank you for the link Image Analyst.