2.25: Advanced Fluid Dynamics
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 Problem 5.02: Force on a fireman's hose


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Answer for Part D:

This makes sense. Hydrostatic pressure exerts a purely normal force on walls. The normal to the walls of a straight pipe segment with its axis oriented in the x-direction is transverse to the x-direction. There can be no net x-direction force.