Hydro Comprehensive Examination Without Solutions
Hydro Comprehensive Examination Without Solutions
Hydro Comprehensive Examination Without Solutions
A. Which of the following most nearly gives the time it will take to lower the water by 1 m?
a. 1830.55 s
b. 1510.83 s
c. 1977.71 s
d. 1678.46 s
B. Which of the following most nearly gives the time it will take to lower the water level by 1.50 m?
a. 3258.98 s
b. 3200.49 s
c. 3034.35 s
d. 3245.46 s
C. Which of the following nearly gives the time it will take to empty the pool?
a. 3566.04 s
b. 3487.63 s
c. 3770.30 s
d. 3649.46 s
2.) A spillway 12.90 m long, releases flood runoff from a reservoir 5 hectares in area. If the reservoir
level drops from elevation 55 m to 54 m in 2.520 seconds, find the elevation of the rest of the spillway.
Use francis formula. Assume constant reseirvor surface area.
a) 52.50 m
b) 53.50 m
c) 51.50 m
d) 54.50 m
3.) A cylindrical tank 4 m in diameter is divided by a vertical partition along its diameter. A submerged
square orifice 20 cm x 20 cm (C=0.60) is located on the side of the partition. At a certain instant, the
water level on one side is 6 m higher than the water level on the other side. How long will it take for the
surface to be at the same level?
a) 144.78 s
4) Water flows through a horizontal venturi meter having an inlet diameter of 31 cm and throat
diameter of 19 cm. If the pressure at the inlet is 750 kpa and that at the throat is 550 kpa, find the
discharge through the venturi meter, neglect any losses.
d)0.61 m3/s
5) The toal head loss in the pipe system shown in the figure below is 15 m. Assume f=0.02 for all pipes.
Useful properties of the pipe are given in the following table.
Pipe Length Diameter(mm)
1 450 600
2 600 500
3 360 450
4 480 450
5 540 600
A) Which of the following most nearly gives the slope of energy grade line between the two
sections?
a. 0.00088 c. 0.00033
b. 0.00065 d. 0.00062? 0.00042?
B) Whcih of the following most nearly gives the distance between the two sections?
a. 1,376.43 ft c. 1,400.70 ft
b. 1,542.16 ft d. 1,321.70 ft
C) Whcih of the following most neasrly gives the head loss between the two sections?
a. 1.06 ft c. 1.18 ft
b. 0.89 ft d. 1.23 ft
7) A rectangular channel 10m wide carries a discharge of 17.60 m3/s of water when the depth of flow is
1.20 m. The roughness coefficeint is n=0.014
A) Which of the following most nearly gives the minimun specific gravity?
a. Di kita naipit ng stapler c. 1.55 m
b. 1.38 m d. 1.20 m
B) Which of the following most nearly gives the normal slope?
a. 0.0058 c. 0.0021
b. 0.0026 d. 0.0004
C) Which of the following most nearly gives the average boundary shear stress?
a. 25.87 Pa c. 15.23 Pa
b. 12.34 Pa d. 4.18 Pa
8) A rectangular channel 5.40 m wide and 1.20 m deep is laid on a unifrom slope od 0.001. The
roughness coefficient of the channel is 0.013.
A) Which of the following most nearly gives the flow of the channel?
a. 11.84 m3/s c. 12.50
b. 13.93 d. 14.62
B) Which of the following most nearly gives thesaving in the lining per meter length of channel that
could have been offered by using the most efficient rectangular section but adhering to the
same flow capacity and slope?
a. 0.74 m2/m c. 0.22
b. 0.25 d. 0.29
C) Which of the following most nearly gives thesaving in earth excavation per meter length of
channel that could have been offered by using the most efficient rectangular section but
adhering to the same flow capacity and slope?
D) flow capacity and slope?
a. 0.34 m2/m c. 0.22
b. 0.25 d. 0.29
9) A hydraulic jump occurs in an efficient triangle channel caryying 8 m3/s om a slope of 0.006. The
depth after the jump is 2.96m.
A) Which of the following most nearly gives the depth before the jump?
a. 0.95m c. 0.65m
b. 0.84m d. 0.73m
B) Which of the following most nearly gives the loss energy in the jump?
a. 3.17m c. 4.31m
b. 5.40m d. 2.56m
C) Which of the following most nearly gives the loss of power in the jump?
a. 243.06 kW
b. 196.38 kW
c. 124.29 kW
d. 338.33 kW