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24 Jan 2022
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Given in the question is a physician judges the health of a heart by measuring the pressure with which it pumps blood.
And he mistakenly attaches the pressurized cuff around a standing patient's calf instead of the arm.
That is about below the heart
We need to find what error would be introduced in the heart's blood pressure measurement.
Step-by-step explanation
Step 1.
is the sum of atmospheric pressure
The equation for the gauge pressure is,
density of the fluid
acceleration due to gravity
depth
So, rewrite equation
From above it is clear that the pressure varies with the depth.
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