Example 1-1

An object at sea level has a mass of 400 kg.

a) Find the weight of this object on earth.
b) Find the weight of this object on the moon where the local gravitational
acceleration is one-sixth that of earth.
(a)

Wt mg
m 1N
Wt (400 kg )(9.807 2 )(
)
s kg m
s2
3922.8 N
(b)

Wt mg
9.807 m 1 N
(400 kg )(
)(
)
2
6 s kg m
s2
6538
. N

Example 1-2E
An object has a mass of 180 lbm. Find the weight of this object at a location where
the local gravitational acceleration is 30 ft/s2.

Wt mg
ft
1 lbf
(180 lbm)(30 2 )(
)
ft
s 32.2 lbm
s2
167.7 lbf
Example 1-3
A vacuum gage connected to a tank reads 30 kPa at a location where the atmospheric
pressure is 98 kPa. What is the absolute pressure in the tank?

Pabs Patm Pgage

98 kPa 30 kPa
68 kPa
Example 1-4
A pressure gage connected to a valve stem of a truck tire reads 240 kPa at a location
where the atmospheric pressure is 100 kPa. What is the absolute pressure in the tire,
in kPa and in psia?

Pabs Patm Pgage

100 kPa 240 kPa
340 kPa

The pressure in psia is

14.7 psia
Pabs 340 kPa
49.3 psia
1013
. kPa
What is the gage pressure of the air in the tire, in psig?

Pgage Pabs Patm

49.3 psia 14.7 psia
34.6 psig
Check the tire side walls on your car or truck. What is the maximum allowed
pressure? Is this pressure in gage or absolute values?

Example 1-5
Both a gage and a manometer are attached to a gas tank to measure its pressure. If the
pressure gage reads 80 kPa, determine the distance between the two fluid levels of the
manometer if the fluid is mercury whose density is 13,600 kg/m 3.

P
h
g
103 N / m3
80 kPa
kPa
h
kg
m
1N
13600 3 9.807 2
m
s kg m / s2
0.6 m
Example 1-6

Water boils at 212 F at one atmosphere pressure. At what temperature does water
boil in C.

T = (T 32)

5
5 C
(212 32) F
100 C
9
9 F

EXAMPLE 17

A tank is filled with oil whose density is = 850 kg/m3. If the volume of the tank is
V= 2 m3, determine the amount of mass m in the tank.

EXAMPLE 18

A manometer is used to measure the pressure in a tank. The fluid used has a specific
gravity of 0.85, and the manometer column height is 55 cm, as shown in Figure
below. If the local atmospheric pressure is 96 kPa, determine the absolute pressure
within the tank.

EXAMPLE 1-9
The water in a tank is pressurized by air, and the pressure is measured by a multifluid
manometer as shown in Fig. 315. The tank is located on a mountain at an altitude of
1400 m where the atmospheric pressure is 85.6 kPa. Determine the air pressure in the
tank if h1 = 0.1 m, h2=_ 0.2 m, and h3= 0.35 m. Take the densities of water, oil, and
mercury to be 1000 kg/m3, 850 kg/m3, and 13,600 kg/m3, respectively.