TESTING YOUR OWN UNDERSTANDING

UNITS 2 & 3

1. With the help of sketches, illustrate the concepts:

a. Pressure varies with height
b. Pressure is constant along a horizontal datum.
c. Pressure acts equally in all directions

2. What do you understand by Pascals Law, illustrate your answer?

3. Differentiate between Gauge Pressure and Absolute Pressure.

4. Explain under what conditions gauge pressures can be negative, but absolute
Pressure cannot.

5. How does a Piezometer work?

6. What are the advantages associated with the use of:

a. A Piezometer
b. A U tube Manometer
c. An enlarge U tube manometer
d. An inverted U Tube manometer
e. An inclined U tube manometer
7. You are to measure a suction pressure in a pipeline, which type of manometer
would best suit your purpose.

8. Discuss about 3 ways in which you can express the pressure of a fluid in a
pipeline.