College Physics with MasteringPhysics 7th Edition by Jerry Wilson,Anthony Buffa,Bo Lou

Exercise 48

As a medical technologist, you are attending to a worker who has been wounded by an accidental industrial explosion. After measuring her arterial blood pressure to be 132/86, you determine her major wound to be a small circular puncture of an artery, with an estimated diameter of 0.25 mm. Determine (a) the maximum speed at which blood is flowing out of the puncture and (b) the maximum rate (in cc/min) at which she is losing blood through it.