The level of water in a city water tower is 125ft. above the ground. the tank is kept with an air space which can be pressurized with compressed air. it is important to maintain a pressure at the bottom of the tower at 75 psig. what gauge pressure has to be applied to the air in the top of the tower to get the required pressure at the bottom of the tower. if the atmospheric pressure is 755mmhg, what is the absolute pressure at the bottom of the tower. draw the system and show the pressure gauges.

Tom is having a problem with his washing machine. he notices that the machine vibrates violently at a frequency of 1500 rpm due to an unknown rotating unbalance. the machine is mounted on 4 springs each having a stiffness of 10 kn/m. tom wishes to add an undamped vibration absorber attached by a spring under the machine the machine working frequency ranges between 800 rpm to 2000 rpm and its total mass while loaded is assumed to be 80 kg a) what should be the mass of the absorber added to the machine so that the natural frequency falls outside the working range? b) after a first trial of an absorber using a mass of 35 kg, the amplitude of the oscillation was found to be 10 cm. what is the value of the rotating unbalance? c) using me-3.5 kg.m, find the optimal absorber (by minimizing its mass). what would be the amplitude of the oscillation of the absorber?