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I need help in answering How does opening of water faucet affect flow of water?

Hi DJcurious,
Welcome to the Ask an Expert forums. What sort of help do you need in answering that question? There is an obvious answer, but I suppose there must be more to the question than that.
Chris

I suspect the question is this. Two water faucets, A and B, are on the same supply. I turn on A. What happens to the pressure ( or volume of water) at A when I turn on B. The answer to that question is: it depends on the details of the pipe system. If the main pipe is very large and the faucets are small, B might not have any effect on whats happening at A.

I hope you are getting an idea about how a simple sets of experiments can reveal something about the characteristics of the plumbing system hidden behind walls. Read up on flow through pipes.

Hi DJcurious,

I was curious which project you were doing. The only sciencebuddies project I could find that mentions "faucet" is

How Can Your Faucet Save Water?
https://www.sciencebuddies.org/science- ... p011.shtml

This doesn't sound like the right project. If that's not your project, do you have another pointer?