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    Pressure and Hydraulics Worksheet

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    The document discusses pressure and hydrostatics concepts. It provides example problems calculating pressure based on applied force and contact area. It also discusses how pressure increases with depth underwater or in a liquid column, and how instruments like manometers and barometers can be used to measure gas or atmospheric pressure. The document contains review questions testing understanding of relationships between pressure, force, density, height, and area in hydrostatic systems.

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    Pressure and Hydraulics Worksheet

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    The document discusses pressure and hydrostatics concepts. It provides example problems calculating pressure based on applied force and contact area. It also discusses how pressure increases with depth underwater or in a liquid column, and how instruments like manometers and barometers can be used to measure gas or atmospheric pressure. The document contains review questions testing understanding of relationships between pressure, force, density, height, and area in hydrostatic systems.

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    The document discusses pressure and hydrostatics concepts. It provides example problems calculating pressure based on applied force and contact area. It also discusses how pressure increases with depth underwater or in a liquid column, and how instruments like manometers and barometers can be used to measure gas or atmospheric pressure. The document contains review questions testing understanding of relationships between pressure, force, density, height, and area in hydrostatic systems.

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    PRESSURE AND HYDROSTATICS

    1. (a) What is the pressure on a surface when a force of 500N acts over an area of 1m2 ?
    (b) What is the pressure on a surface when a force of 500N acts on an area of 100m2 ?
    (c) What is the pressure on a surface when a force of 500N acts on an area of 0.1m2 ?
    (d) Comment on the results in (a), (b) and (c) above.

    2. Is the pressure at a point 100m below the surface of sea water of density 1150 kg/m3 greater,
    less than or equal to the pressure 50m below the surface? Give a reason for your answer.

    3. In a hydraulic press a force of 20N is applied to a piston of area 0.2m2. The area of the other
    piston is 2m2. What is (a) the pressure transmitted through the liquid and (b) the force on the
    other piston?

    4. The figure shows a U-tube manometer connected to a gas supply to measure its pressure.

    (a) What is the pressure at Po?


    (b) Is the pressure at C equal to, more than or less than the pressure at A?
    (c) Is the pressure of the gas greater than, less than or equal to atmospheric pressure?
    (d) If h=55mm and atmospheric pressure is 750mm of mercury, what is the pressure of the gas
    supply in mm on mercury?

    5. A fish tank of dimensions 40cm x 40cm x 50cm (depth) is filled with water to a depth of 40cm.
    What is the total pressure at the bottom of the tank? What is the force on an object of surface area
    4cm2 which is resting on the bottom of the tank?

    6. When a man’s feet have a total area of


    240 cm2 in contact with the ground he exerts on a trip in the Blue Mountains. Eventhough
    a pressure of 3.0Ncm-2. The mass of the man the temperature was the same, the reading
    is on the gauge increased slightly because
    (a) 72 kg (b) 720 kg
    (c) 80 kg (d) 800 kg (a) the car is heavier at the top of the
    mountain
    7. A motorist used a tyre gauge to measure
    the pressure in his tyres in Kinston, at sea (b) the volume of the tyres is less at the top
    level. He measured the pressure again while of a mountain
    12. A rectangular block of metal weighing
    (c) the atmosphere exerts a greater pressure 20 N has dimensions 10cm x 8cm x 5cm.
    on the walls of the tyres at the top of a What is the greatest pressure it can exert
    mountain when resting on a flat surface.
    (d) the excess pressure is greater because
    atmospheric pressure is less at the top of a a) 1 600 Ncm-2 b) 4 Ncm-2
    mountain. c) 5 Ncm-2 d) 0.5 Ncm-2

    8. When a simple mercury barometer is 13. Which of the following quantities are
    tilted, the vertical height of the mercury proportional to the pressure at the bottom of
    remains constant (see diagram). This a column of liquid?
    indicates that
    a) the barometer was carefully constructed I. the height of the column
    b) some air has leaked into the space above II. the density of the liquid
    the mercury III. the area of the column
    c) the mercury has some water in it
    d) the mercury is sticking to the glass a) I only b) I and II only
    c) II and III only d) I, II and III

    14. The height of a column of liquid in a


    tube is h and the pressureat the bottom of the
    liquid is P. The density of the liquid is
    a) P/gh b) Pg/h
    c) hg/P d) Pgh

    9. Atmospheric pressure is normally about 15. The vessel in the diagram contains a
    a) 760 Pa b) 10 000 Pa liquid of density ρ. The pressure difference
    c) 1 000 Pa d) 100 000 Pa between point P at height y and point Q at
    point h is given by
    10. Which of the following instruments a) P = ρgh b) P = ρgy
    could be used to determine the pressure of c) P = ρg(y – h) d) P = ρg(y + h)
    the gas supply in a laboratory?

    a) barometer b) manometer
    c) thermometer d) micrometer

    11. The area of the base of a large concrete


    block is 12m2. Its weight is 600N. The
    pressure it exerts on the ground is
    a) 500 Pa b) 5 000 Pa
    c) 2 000 Pa d) 7 200 Pa

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