You are studying for an exam on the eight floor of your luxurious apartment building. You look out f

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You are studying for an exam on the eight floor of your luxurious apartment building. You look out from the window and notice that one of your neighbours is giving a party on the ground-floor terrace and has placed a huge punch bowl full of an interesting looking beverage (specific gravity 1) directly below your window. You quickly string together 80 drinking straws to form a giant straw that can reach the punch bowl 80 feet below. You dip the straw into the punch and begin to suck. When you use a single drinking straw to drink something, it takes you 0.1 seconds to raise the liquid to your lips. But when you use this giant drinking straw,

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The liquid will rise up to 80 feet height only if the pressure at that point is less than P₀ by an amount ρ_w.g.h. ie; Pressure at point A should be P_A = P₀ − ρgh < 0 (As ρgh = 10³ × 10 × 80 > 10⁵ (P₀)) and it is not possible for us to make the pressure negative.

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