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ESci 146 – FLUID MECHANICS

1st Semester, AY 2019 – 2020

Laboratory Exercise No. 4

Pressure Prism

Name: _________________________________________ Date: _________________

INSTRUCTIONS: Use clean A4 BONDPAPERS for your solutions. ILLUSTRATE the

problem. BOX final answers.

Sample Problem:

A rectangular gate is 5 ft wide and 4 ft high is submerged in water. The water is at 100˚F.
Using the concept of pressure prism, compute for the magnitude of the resultant fluid force
acting on the gate and its respect to the centroid of the gate’s area when:

(a) the gate’s upper edge is in the water surface and the gate is oriented vertically;
(b) the bottom edge of the gate is submerged 9.5 feet from the fluid surface and the
gate is oriented vertically; and
(c) the bottom edge of the gate is submerged 9.5 feet from the fluid surface and the
gate is oriented 𝜃 = 45°.

Your Task:

Keeping all the given conditions, solve the same problem but this time use a rectangular gate
that is 4 ft wide and 5 ft high.

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