CE198-FLUID MECHANICS 5. If the viscosity of water at 70oC is 0.

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1. An ice berg has a density of 57.1 lb/ft3. If it poise and its specific gravity is 0.978,
floats fresh water, what percent of the determine its kinematic viscocity in cm2/s
iceberg’s volume will be visible? 7.57 x 10-4 stoke
0.055 4.11 x 10-3 stoke
0.085 5.44 x 10-3stoke
0.075
9.23 x 10-4stoke
0.105
6. What is the pressure 12.5 m below the
ocean ?
134.5 kPa
2. What is the pressure of 8000 t below the
123.6 kPa
ocean surface?
321,000lbf/ft2 126.3 kPa
514,176 lbf/ft2 132.7 kPa
548,000 lbf/ft2
312, 000 lbf/ft2
7. A cylindrical pipe with water flowing
downward at 0.02m3/s having top diameter
3. A 0.50 m diameter window has its center of 0.08 m, bottom diameter of 0.04 m and
three meters below the water surface. height of 1.5 m. Findthe pressure between
Determine the force acting on the window the pipe.
considering the window is submerged 45.89 kPa
vertically 104.03 kPa
5.8 kN
9.25 kPa
4.8 kN
67.1 kPa
2.9 kN
3.8 kN

8. If a depth of liquid of 1m causes a pressure

of 7 kPa, what is the specific gravity of the
4. A 150 mm diameter pipe carries 81.3 L/s of liquid?
water . The pipe branches into two pipes 0.786
one is 50 mm in diameter and the other is
75 mm. What is the velocity in 75 mm pipe if 0.817
the velocity of the flow in the 50 mm pipe is 0.714
10 m/s
19.43 m/s 0.324

17.25 m/s
9. In a hydraulic press the large piston has a
15.67 m/s cross-sectional area A1 = 200 cm2 and the
13.96 m/s small piston has a cross-section area A2 =
5 cm2. If the force applied is 250 N to the
small piston. Compute the force acting on
the large piston.
21 kN
20 kN
12 kN
10 kN
10. A fluid with a vapor pressure of 0.2 Pa and 15. A water-tight, cubical,12 inches outside
a specificgravity of 12 is used in a dimensions, is made from ¼ inch iron plate.
barometer. If the fluid's column height is 1 If SG = 7.7 for the iron, will the box float?
m, what is theatmospheric pressure? The box will not float
123.45 kPa
The box sink
345.10 kPa The iron will float
117.720 kPa The box will float
232.90 kPa 16. Liquids and gases take the following
characteristic(s) of their contents
Shape

11. How high does mercury barometer stands Volume

on a day when atmospheric pressure is 98.6 Shape and volume
kPa considering that the specific gravity of
mercury is 13.6. Neither shape nor volume
540 mm
760 mm 17. Which of the following fluids exhibit
viscosities that increase with increasing
739 mm agitation but they return rapidly to their
400 mm normal viscosity after the agitation ceases?
Bingham fluids
Dilatant fluids
12. According to Archimedes’ principle, the Pseudoplastic fluids
buoyant force on a submerged object is
equal to which of the following? Newtonian fluids
Weight of the object above the fluid surface 18. What is the reciprocal of absolute viscosity?
Fluidity
Weight of the fluid not being displaced
Compressibility
Weight of the fluid displaced and the total
weight of the object Viscosity gradient
Weight of the displaced fluid Viscosity index
13. If one end of the manometer opens to the 19. Absolute viscosity of a fluid varies with the
air, what do you call this manometer? pressure and temperature and is defined as
Open manometer a function of
Free end manometer density and shear stress
Differential manometer density, shear stress and angular deformation
rate
Continuous manometer
shear stress and angular deformation rate
14. A barrel contains a 0.150 layer of oil floating
on the water that is 0.30 mm deep. If the density and angular deformation rate
intensity of the oil is 600 kg/m3,what is the 20. Which of the following ratios describes
pressure gage at the oil water interface? Reynolds number?
883 Pa Drag forces / Buoyant forces
924 Pa Viscous forces / Drag forces
900 Pa Buoyant forces / Inertial forces
742 Pa Inertial forces / Viscous forces
21. The pressure of water entering the draft 26. A block wood that weighs 71.2 N and of
tube is: specific gravity 0.72 is tied by by a string to
Equal to atmospheric the bottom of the tank of water in order to
have the block totally immersed. Determine
Greater than atmospheric the tension in the string
Less than atmospheric 50.25 N
None of these 47.72 N
22. A gas flows through a square circuit at the 94.93 N
entrance the conduit sides are 10 cm, the 23.73 N
velocity is 7.55 m/s and the gas mass
density is 1.09 kg/ m3. At the exit, the
conduit sides are 25 cm and the velocity of
the flow is 2.02 m/s. Find the density of the
gas at the exit of the section considering
that the gas is compressible 27. The fluid in a manometer tube is 60% water
0.6185 kg/ m3 and 40% alcohol (S.G. = 0.8). What is the
manometer fluid height difference if a 6.2
0.6851 kg/ m3 psi pressure is applied across the two ends
0.6598 kg/ m3 of a manometer?
151 in
0.6518 kg/ m3
251 in.
215 in.
186 in

28. A balloon having a mass of 400 kg remains

23. Which of the following is a characteristic of suspended motionless in the air. If the air
an impulse turbine density is 1.29 kg/m3, what is the volume of
Steam striking blades on angle the balloon in cubic meters?
Steam striking blades at zero angle 270 m3

No steam reaction to velocity 280 m3

Steam reversing direction 340 m3

24. Which of the following statements is correct 310 m3

for oils of high viscosity index?
It has fixed viscosity
slight change in its viscosity with extreme
temperature change 29. A submarine is 100 m long. The shape of its
Oil will immediately reacts in small hull is roughly cylindrical with a diameter of
temperature change 15 m. When it is submerged, it cruises at a
speed of about 40 knots or approximately
It continuously increase its viscosity even if
20 m/s. Compute the Reynolds number, if
there is no change in temperature
the viscosity is 1.0 x 10-3 Pa.s.
25. Which of the following refers to the measure
4 x 108
of a fluid’s sensitivity to changes in viscosity
with changes in temperature? 3 x 108
Viscosity ratio
2.5 x 108
Viscosity factor
5 x 108
Viscosity index
Coefficient of viscosity
30. What is the value of the surface tension of a 34. Calculate the pressure at a depth of 100
small droplet of water 0.3 mm in diameter meters in seawater, for which the specific
which is in contact with air if the pressure weight is 10.1 kN/m3.
within the droplet is 561 Pa? 1616 kPa
0.017 N/m
1010 kPa
0.042 N/m
1414 kPa
0.078 N/m
1212 kPa
0.021 N/m 35. Which of the following refers to the measure
of a fluid’s sensitivity to changes in viscosity
with changes in temperature?
Viscosity index
31. A 70.874 L/s ( 150 ft3/min) of water is Coefficient of viscosity
flowing in a round pipe such that the flow
remains laminar. Considering that the Viscosity factor
critical Reynolds number to be 2000, What Viscosity ratio
is the diameter of the pipe necessary to
ensure laminar flow. Kinematic velocity of 36. Which of the following is the dominating
the water is 4.75 x 10 ft-5/min ft2/s. cause of viscosities of liquids?
41.7 ft molecular spacing
33.50 ft molecular randomness
37.5 ft molecular cohesion
12.5 ft molecular adhesion
37. The normal stress is the same in all
directions at a point in fluid:
only if the fluid is frictionless
32. A cylindrical bucket, open at the top , 0.200 only if fluid is frictionless and incompressible
and 0.100 m in diameter. A circular hole
with one cross section area 1.0 cm2 is cut in when there is no motion of one fluid layer
the center of the bottom of the bucket. relative to an adjacent layer
Water flows into bucket from the tube above independent of the motion of one fluid layer
it at the rate of 1.30 x 10-4m2/s. How high relative to an adjacent layer
will the water in the bucket rise 38. SI unit of viscosity Pa-s is
8.62 cm 9.81 times poise
2.52 cm 1 / 9.81 times poise
4.67 cm 1 / 10 times poise
1.25 cm 10 imes poise
39. A balloon having a mass of 400 kg/m3,what
is the volume of the balloon in cubic meters
33. A hose shoots water straight up for a 310m3
distance of 2.5 m. The end opening on the
hose has an area of 0.75 cm2. How much 340m3
water come out in 1 hour. 280m3
0.78 m3
270m3
2.56 m3
1.67 m3
1.89 m3
40. The negative sign for a gage reading is 46. Which of the following statements is TRUE
called about a fluid?
pressure head It cannot sustain a shear force at rest
transmission of pressure It can strain
vapor pressure It is a liquid only
vacuum pressure It has a very regular molecular structure
41. What is the classification of the fluid flow if 47. The jet disgharges water at the rate of 0.10
the fluid travels parallel to the adjacent m3/s and at a speed of 18 m/s to stationary
layers and the paths of the individual plate. Determine the force on the plate
particles do not cross each other? 1800 N
Uniform flow
2000 N
Steady flow
2500 N
Laminar flow
2800 N
Turbulent flow
42. What do you call the volume occupied by a
unit mass of fluid?
Density 48. What is thermal diffusivity?
Specific volume a configuration for heat conduction

Specific weight a physical property of the material

Specific gravity a mathematical formula

43. Which of the following is an absolute a dimensionless parameter

property of liquid? 49. A cylindrical tank having a diameter of 1.5 m
specific gravity and a height of 4 m is open at one end and
close at the other end. It is placed below at
weight density
the water surface with its open end down.
Density How deep below the surface should the
tank be placed if the depth of the water
specific weight inside the tank is 1.8 m
44. The following are the basic components of a 5.90 cm
fluid element in motion. Which one is NOT
6.25 m
included?
Volume distortion 6.0 m
Rotation 7.0 m
Twist
Translation
45. An instrument which is used to determine
the specific gravity of a substance? 50. Compute the capillary depression for
Hydrometer mercury in a glass capillary tube 2 mm in
diameter if the surface tension of mercury is
None of the choices
0.514 N/m and theta = 140o.
Odometer 7.8 mm
Calorimeter 5.9 mm
6.8 mm
3.4 mm
51. A hydro-electric power plant consumes 56. A Kaplan turbine is
60,000,000 kW-hr per year . What is the net an outward flow reaction turbine
head if the expected flow is 1500 m3/min
and over-all efficiency is 63%. a high head mixed flow turbine
43.43 m an inward flow impulse turbine
34.34 m low head axial flow turbine
44.33 m 57. In a hydro-electric plant using a Francis
turbine with medium head, the speed can
33.44 m
be regulated using the
nozzle
wicket gate
weir
52. The density of ice is 917 kg/ m3and the
deflector gate
approximate density of the sea water in
which an iceberg floats is 1025 kg/ m3. 58. For computation convenience, fluids are
What fraction of iceberg is beneath the usually classed as
water surface rotational or irrotational
0.29
real or ideal
0.45
Newtonian or non-Newtonian
0.71
laminar or turbulent
0.89 59. Which of the following is not a unit of
viscosity?
SSU ( Saybolt Second Universal )
Poise
53. In the deep well installation or operation, the
difference between static water level and Stokes
operating water level is known as
Baume’
suction lift
60. The negative sign for a gage reading is
clogging called
drawdown vacuum pressure
priming level transmission of pressure
54. What do you call the pressure which the vapor pressure
fluid exerts on an immersed object or
pressure head
container walls?
Standard liquid pressure 61. A piece of cork has a specific gravity of 0.25
and weighs 4 lb in air. If the weigh density of
Gage pressure water is 62.4 lb/f3. Compute the volume of
Normal pressure the cork
0.38 f3
Hydrostatic pressure
0.24 f3
55. Which of the following is an example of a
Newtonian fluid? 0.26 f3
Gas
0.28 f3
Paints
Clay slurries
Motor oils
62. The maximum continuous power available 66. The length of pipe is 168 meters. If the
from a hydroelectric power plant even under pressure drop is 50 kPa for every 30 m,
the most adverse hydraulic conditions what is the total pressure drop?
continuous base power 280 kPa
firm power 220 kPa
primary power 240 kPa
continuous power 260 kPa
63. An oil flowing at the rate of 0.001 m3/s 67. Water leaves a faucet with a downward
through an 8 cm diameter pipe has a velocity of 3 m/s. As the water falls below
kinematic viscosity of 2 x 10-5m3 and an the faucets it accelerates with acceleration
specific gravity of 0.85. What is the g. The gross sectional area of the water
centerline velocity stream leaving the faucet is 1.0 cm2. What
0.678 m/s is the cross sectional area of the stream
0.50 m below the faucet.
0235 m/s
0.25 2
0.547 m/s
0.69 cm2
0.398 m/s
0.57 2
0.45 2

64. An atmospheric pressure of 101.325 kPa

will be supported by how much height of 68. A mercury barometer stands 762 mm. Agas
mercury (s.g. = 13.6)? bubble, whose volume is 33 cm3 when it is a
0.56 m bottom of the lake 45.7 m deep rises to the
surface . Compute the volume at the
0.76 m surface of the lake.
0.66 m 258 cm3
0.86 m 178 cm3
65. A vacuum pump is used to drain a flooded 520 cm3
mine shaft of 69°F water. The vapor
320 cm3
pressure of water at this temperature is 0.34
psi. The pump is incapable of lifting the
water higher than 400 inches. What is the
atmospheric pressure?
14.78 psi
69. Estimate the height to which water will rise
13.27 psi
in a capillary tube 2 mm in diameter. Use 
12.45 psi = 0.0728 N/m and y = 9810 N/m3.
10.8 mm
17.67 psi
9.9 mm
5.8 mm
3.91 mm
70. The pressure at the bottom of a tank of 74. The density of water is typically taken to be
water (p = 62.4 lbm/ft3) is measured with a 62.4 lbm / ft3 for engineering problems
mercury manometer. The density of where greater accuracy is not required.
mercury is 848 bm/ft3. What is the gage What is the value is slugs/ft3?
pressure at the bottom of the water tank? 1.94 slugs/ft3
Note: (h1 = 120 in. and h2 = 17 in.)
3.24 slugs/ft3
1.07 psig
2.04 slugs/ft3
2.07 psig
1.24 slugs/ft3
3.07 psig
75. At a height of 10,000 m (33,000 ft) above
4.01 psig
the sea level, atmospheric pressure is about
210 mm of Hg. What is the resultant normal
force on a 600 cm2window of an airplane
flying at this height when the hydrostatic
conditions and a pressure inside the plane
71. How far below the water surface should a of 760 mm of mercury and density of
vertical square 1 m on a side with two sides mercury is 13,600 kg/m3?
horizontal to be immersed so that the center 4.403 kN
of pressure will be 70 mm below the center
2.741 Kn
of gravity?
0.69 m 3.407 kN
0.78 m 5.721 kN
0.57 m
0.72 m

76. The fluid that has a velocity of 18 m/s will

72. Water at 20o/ oC is flowing in a pipe of radius have an equivalent head of
1.0 cm. The velocity of water at 20o/oC is 18.34 cm
1.005 centipoise. If the flow speed at the
16.51 m
center is 0.200 m/s and the flow is laminar,
find the pressure drop due to viscosity along 11.41 m
a 5 m section pipe.
13.56 m
12.5 Pa
45.77 Pa
13.45 Pa
77. Water is flowing in the pipe of varying cross
40.2 Pa
sectional area at point 1 is 0.080m2 and the
velocity is 3.5 m/s. Compute the fluid's
velocity at point 2 where the cross sectional
area is 0.060 m2
73. The hydraulic radius of noncircular pipe is : 4.67 m/s
the ratio of the area to the wetted perimeter 2.57 m/s
the radius of a pipe of equivalent area 5.22 m/s
none of the choices 3.25 m/s
the square root of the flow area
78. In a floating object, what do you call the 84. It refers to the fractional change in the
distance between the center of gravity and volume of a fluid per unit change in
the metacenter? pressure in a constant temperature process.
Buoyancy head Which one?
Proportional limit
Metacentric head
Capillarity
Metacenteric height
Compressibility
Submerged height
Bulk modulus
79. Alcohol finds use in manometers as
Cheap and easily available 85. A scuba diver at a depth of 200 feet notices
the bubbles he exhales have diameters of ½
it provides a suitable meniscus for the inclined inch. Assume the surface tension and water
tube temperature remains relatively constant.
its density being less can provide longer What is the depth if the diameter is ¼ inch
length for a pressure difference, thus more 1400 ft
accuracy can be obtained
it provides a suitable meniscus for the inclined 2800 ft
tube & its density being less can provide 1600 ft
longer length for a pressure difference, thus
more accuracy can be obtained 1200 ft
80. Which of the following statements about a
Newtonian fluid is most accurate?
Shear stress is proportional to rate of strain
Viscosity is zero
86. A vertical sliding gate is being submerged in
Shear stress is proportional to strain a 10-meter water. The gate is 5 m wide and
Shear stress is multi - valued 9 m high and weighs 50 kN. What vertical
force is needed to just lift this gate
81. For partially submerged objects to be considering that the coefficient of friction
stable, where does the metacenter be between the guides and edges is 0.25?
located? (Note: Neglect buoyant force)
Below the center of gravity 765 kN
To the right of the center of gravity 657 kN
Above the center of gravity 675 kN
To the left of the center of gravity 756 kN
82. A hydrometer scale for measuring the
relative density (specific gravity) of liquids
Buckley scale
Beaufort scale
87. Find the volume flow rate of water in L/s if
Baume scale the power developed under a head of 320 m
Beckman scale is 10,500 kW and the hydraulic efficiency is
85%.
83. Which of the following refers to the measure 3721
of the fluid’s resistance to flow when acted
upon by an external force? 3293
Specific gravity 3271
Viscosity
Coefficient of resistance
Specific volume
88. Viscosity for a fluid is define as the constant
of proportionality between shear stress and
what other variable?
The spatial derivative of velocity
The time derivative of density
The spatial derivative of density
The time derivative of pressure
89. What is the reciprocal of absolute viscosity?
Viscosity gradient
Fluidity
Viscosity index
Compressibility
90. If the atmospheric pressure is 95.7 kPa and
the gage attached to the tank reads 188
mmHg in vacuum, find the absolute
pressure within the tank.
89.53 kPa
31.2 kPa
42.3 Kpa
79.62 kPa
91. A rigid container is closed at one end and
measures 8 in. diameter by 12 in. long. The
container is held vertically and is slowly
moved downward until the pressure in the
container is 15.5 psia. What will be the
depth of the water surface measure from
the free water surface?
9.8 in
9.2 in.
12 in.
22 in