Question

Pick out the correct statement pertaining to venturimeter.

a.

A venturimeter with a fixed pressure drop discharges more, when the flow is vertically downward, than when the flow is vertically upward.

b.

The co-efficient of contraction of a venturimeter is always unity.

c.

For a fixed pressure drop, the discharge of a gas through a venturimeter is greater, when compressibility is taken into account, than when it is neglected.

d.

none of these.

Answer: (d).none of these.

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