Reading Quiz 1

1.
What is a fluid?
A. Substance that will deform when only a massive shearing stress is applied
B. Substance that deforms under any shearing stress
C. Substance that cannot be compressed
2.
What is meant by defining a fluid as a continuum?

A. Fluid parameters vary continuously throughout the fluid
B. There exist certain discontinuities throughout the fluid
C. The fluid is forced to continually flow
3.
Examples of primary quantities are which of the following?

A. Size, Density, and Texture
B. Length, Mass, and Chemical Structure
C. Length, Time, Mass, and Temperature
4.
Which of the following selections are all British Gravitational System units?
A. foot, pound, Newton, gallon
B. foot, second, pound, Rankin, and slug
C. foot, liter, Kelvin, Celsius, and pound
5.
Which following prefix is used when the unit is multiplied by 10 -9?

A. nano
B. micro
C. pico
6.
What was the name of the NASA spacecraft lost due to inconsistencies in units?
A. Mars Exploration Rovers
B. Stardust
C. Mars Climate Orbiter
7.
What is meant by a dimensionally homogeneous equation?
Answer:
8.
There are strong similarities between the general approach to fluid mechanics and what?
A. rigid-body motion
B. rigid-body and deformable-body solid mechanics
C. statics and dynamics
9.
The broad subject of fluid mechanics can be generally divided into ____.
A. fluid statics and fluid dynamics
B. fluid motion and fluid stability
C. fluid composition and fluid dynamics
10.
Specific volume is the reciprocal of what measurement?

A. volume
B. gravity
C. density
11.
What is the definition of specific gravity?

A. the weight per unit gravity
B. the ratio of the density of water to the density of a fluid
C. the ratio of the density of a fluid to the density of water
12.
How can the absolute pressure be found by using the gage pressure?
A. by adding the gage pressure and the atmospheric pressure
B. by using the equation P = RT
C. by subtracting the atmospheric pressure from the gage pressure
13.
The gas constant, R, depends on what?

A. a relationship between the density and the pressure of the gas
B. the molecular weight of sea-level air
C. the molecular weight of the gas
14.
The Pressure in a fluid at rest is defined as the ______ force per unit area exerted on a
plane surface immersed in a fluid
Answer:
15.
What is the no-slip condition that all fluids satisfy?
A. the experimental observation that the fluid slips by the solid boundaries
B. the experimental observation that the fluid sticks to the solid boundaries
C. the experimental observation that the fluid doesn't stick to the solid boundaries
16.
Shearing stress can be increased by____.

A. increasing the surface area
B. increasing pressure
C. decreasing pressure
17.
Fluids for which the shearing stress is not linearly related to the rate of shearing strain are
designated as what?
A. viscous fluids
B. Newtonian fluid
C. non-Newtonian fluid
18.
Examples of shear thickening fluids are ____.

A. water-corn starch mixture and water-sand mixture
B. water-baking soda mixture and water-sand mixture
C. salt-water and quicksand
19.
Which is an example of a Bingham plastic?

A. blood
B. mayonnaise
C. salad dressing
20.
Kinematic viscosity is defined as the ratio of the absolute viscosity to the fluid mass.
A. True
B. False
21.
The effect of pressure on viscosity is usually neglected.

A. True
B. False
22.
Since large pressures are required to effect a change in volume, we conclude that liquids
can be considered as ____ for most practical engineering applications.
Answer:
23.
Which of the following describes the process that occurs under constant temperature
conditions?
A. isentropic process
B. isothermal process
C.
D. incompressible process
24.
Another term for the speed of sound is what?

A. absolute velocity
B. acoustic speed
C. acoustic velocity
25.
The development of vapor pressure closely relates to ____.

A. molecular activity
B. the boiling point
C. atmospheric pressure
26.
Boiling, which is the formation of vapor bubbles within the fluid mass, is initiated when the
____ in the fluid reaches the vapor pressure.
Answer:
27.
The dimensions of surface tension are:

A. L/T
B. F/L
C. L/F
28.
Water striders are capable of covering 100 body lengths in one second. True or False
A. True
B. False
29.
The rise (or fall) of a liquid in a capillary tube is a common phenomena associated with
what?
A. difference in pressure
B. surface area
C. surface tension
30.
Which of the following is a good example of a non-wetting liquid when it is in contact with
a glass tube?
A. beryllium
B. mercury
C. saltwater
31.
Elaborate water supply systems were built by whom during the period from the fourth
century B.C. through the early Christian period?
A. Romans
B. Greeks
C. British
32.
The great Leonardo da Vinci described through sketches and writings many different types
of flow phenomena, true or false?
A. True
B. False
33.
The German professor Ludwig Prandtl introduced the concept of what?

A. fluid mechanics
B. aerodynamics
C. fluid boundary layer

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1.

What is meant by defining a fluid as a continuum?

Examples of primary quantities are which of the following?

Which following prefix is used when the unit is multiplied by 10 -9?

Specific volume is the reciprocal of what measurement?

What is the definition of specific gravity?

The gas constant, R, depends on what?

What is the no-slip condition that all fluids satisfy?

Shearing stress can be increased by____.

Examples of shear thickening fluids are ____.

Which is an example of a Bingham plastic?

The effect of pressure on viscosity is usually neglected.

Another term for the speed of sound is what?

The development of vapor pressure closely relates to ____.

The dimensions of surface tension are:

The German professor Ludwig Prandtl introduced the concept of what?

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