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This document provides 22 problems involving concepts of fluid mechanics, pressure, and manometers. The problems calculate things like the terminal velocity of an object sliding down an inclined plane lubricated with oil, the force required to pull a shaft through a bearing sleeve filled with oil, and pressures at various depths for both compressible and incompressible liquids. They also involve using manometers to determine pressure differences and calculations involving open and closed tanks containing mixtures of liquids and air.

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Tutorial Set 1

This document provides 22 problems involving concepts of fluid mechanics, pressure, and manometers. The problems calculate things like the terminal velocity of an object sliding down an inclined plane lubricated with oil, the force required to pull a shaft through a bearing sleeve filled with oil, and pressures at various depths for both compressible and incompressible liquids. They also involve using manometers to determine pressure differences and calculations involving open and closed tanks containing mixtures of liquids and air.

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TUTORIAL SET 1

MC/EL/MN/MR 264 FLUID MECHANICS

1. A block of weight W slides down an inclined plane while lubricated by a thin film
of oil, as in Fig. P1.45. The film contact area is A and its thickness is h. Assuming a
linear velocity distribution in the film, derive an expression for the “terminal”
(zero-acceleration) velocity V of the block.

2. Find the terminal velocity of the block in Fig. P1.45 if the block mass is 6 kg, A
=35 cm2, ϴ= 15°, and the film is 1-mm-thick SAE 30 oil at 20°C.

3. A shaft 6.00 cm in diameter is being pushed axially through a bearing sleeve 6.02
cm in diameter and 40 cm long. The clearance, assumed uniform, is filled with oil
whose properties are ν = 0.003 m2/s and SG = 0.88. Estimate the force required
to pull the shaft at a steady velocity of 0.4 m/s.

4. Calculate the pressure in the ocean at a depth of 2000 m assuming that salt water
is (a) incompressible with a constant density of 1002 kg m−3, (b) compressible
with a bulk modulus of 2.05 GN m−2 and a density at the surface of 1002 kg m−3.
[(a) 19.66 MN m−2, (b) 19.75 MN m−2]

5. What will be (a) the gauge pressure, (b) the absolute pressure of water at a depth
of 12 m below the free surface? Assume the density of water to be 1000 kg m−3
and the atmospheric pressure 101 kN m−2.
[(a) 117.72 kN m−2, (b) 218.72 kN m−2]

6. What depth of oil, specific gravity 0.8, will produce a pressure of 120 kNm−2?
What would be the corresponding depth of water? [15.3 m, 12.2 m]

7. At what depth below the free surface of oil having a density of 600 kg m−3 will the
pressure be equal to 1 bar? [17 m]

8. What would be the pressure in kilonewtons per square metre if the equivalent
head is measured as 400 mm of (a) mercury of specific gravity 13.6, (b) water, (c)
oil of specific weight 7.9 kN m−3, (d ) a liquid of density 520 kg m−3?
[(a) 53.4 kN m−2, (b) 3.92 kN m−2, (c) 3.16 kN m−2, (d ) 2.04 kN m−2]

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9. A mass of 50 kg acts on a piston of area 100 cm2. What is the intensity of
pressure on the water in contact with the underside of the piston, if the piston is
in equilibrium? [4.905 × 104 N m−2]

10. The pressure head in a gas main at a point 120 m above sea level is equivalent to
180 mm of water. Assuming that the densities of air and gas remain constant and
equal to 1.202 kg m−3 and 0.561 kg m−3, respectively, what will be the pressure
head in millimetres of water at sea level? [103 mm]

11. A manometer connected to a pipe in which a fluid is flowing indicates a negative


gauge pressure head of 50mm of mercury. What is the absolute pressure in the
pipe in newtons per square metre if the atmospheric pressure is 1 bar? [93.3 kN
m−2]

12. An open tank contains oil of specific gravity 0.75 on top of water. If the depth of
oil is 2 m and the depth of water 3 m, calculate the gauge and absolute pressures
at the bottom of the tank when the atmospheric pressure is 1 bar.
[44.15 kN m−2, 144.15kN m−2]

13. A closed tank contains 0.5 m of mercury, 2 m of water, 3 m of oil of density 600 kg
m−3 and there is an air space above the oil. If the gauge pressure at the bottom of
the tank is 200 kN m−2, what is the pressure of the air at the top of the tank?
[96 kN m−2]

14. The system in Fig. P2.18 is at 20°C. If atmospheric pressure is 101.33 kPa and
the pressure at the bottom of the tank is 242 kPa, what is the specific gravity of
fluid X?

15. At 20°C gage A reads 350 kPa absolute. What is the height h of the water in cm?
What should gage B read in kPa absolute? See Fig. P2.21.

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16. The fuel gage for a gasoline tank in a car reads proportional to the bottom gage
pressure as in Fig. P2.22. If the tank is 30 cm deep and accidentally contains 2 cm
of water plus gasoline, how many centimeters of air remain at the top when the
gage erroneously reads “full’’?

17. For the inverted manometer of Fig. P2.32, all fluids are at 20°C.
If 𝑝𝐵 − 𝑝𝐴 = 97 𝑘𝑃𝑎, what must the height H be in m?

18. In Fig. P2.33 the pressure at point A is 25 lbf/in2. All fluids are at 20°C. What is
the air pressure in the closed chamber B, in Pa?

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19. Water flows upward in a pipe slanted at 30°, as in Fig. P2.35. The mercury
manometer reads h= 12 cm. Both fluids are at 20°C. What is the pressure
difference 𝑝1 − 𝑝2in the pipe?

20. In Fig. P2.36 both the tank and the tube are open to the atmosphere. If L _ 2.13
m, what is the angle of tilt θ of the tube?

21. An 8-cm-diameter piston compresses manometer oil into an inclined


7-mm-diameter tube, as shown in Fig. P2.39. When a weight W is added to the
top of the piston, the oil rises an additional distance of 10 cm up the tube, as
shown. How large is the weight, in N?

22. A pump slowly introduces mercury into the bottom of the closed tank in Fig.
P2.40. At the instant shown, the air pressure pB = 80 kPa. The pump stops when
the air pressure rises to 110 kPa. All fluids remain at 20°C. What will be the
manometer reading h at that time, in cm, if it is connected to standard sea-level
ambient air patm?

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