TUTORIAL 2.

1: Hydrostatics - Fluid pressure EC110/UiTMKS2

1. The specific gravity of a liquid is 0.75. What height of that liquid is

needed to provide a pressure difference of 200 kPa?

2. An oil of specific gravity 0.9 is contained in a vessel. At a point the

height of oil is 40 m. Find the corresponding height of water at that

point.

i) What is the pressure head expressed in

3. Calculate the pressure due to a column
of 0.4 m of (a) water, (b) an
Figure Q5
oil of specific gravity 0.9, and (c) mercury.
6. Determine the gauge and absolute
pressure at a point which is 2.0
4. An open tank contains water up to a
depth of 2 m and above it an
m below the free surface of water. Take
atmospheric pressure as
meter of water?
5. A hydraulic press has a ram of 30 cm
diameter and a plunger of 4.5
ii) What is the pressure head expressed in
meter of oil?
cm diameter. Find the weight lifted by the
hydraulic press when the
force applied at the plunger is 500 N. Refer
to ​Figure Q5.

oil of specific gravity 0.9 for a depth of 1 m.

Find the gauge and
101.043 kPa.

absolute pressure (i) at the interface of the

two liquids, and (ii) at

the bottom of the tank. 1

7. An oil of specific gravity is 0.8 under a
pressure of 137.2 kN/m​2​.
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8. Estimate the pressure in the water pipe shown in the ​Figure Q8

below. The manometer is open to the atmosphere.

Figure Q8

9. If the pressure in the air shown in ​Figure Q9 ​is increased by 10

kPa, find the magnitude of ​H (​ initially ​H ​= 16 cm).

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Water

Figure Q9

10. For the setup shown in ​Figure Q10,

10 cm calculate the manometer

reading ​H​.
kN ​
γ = 30​ m​3
30 cm
Figure Q10
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11. What is the pressure in the water pipe shown in ​Figure Q11​?

Figure Q11

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12. Determine the pressure difference Figure Q12
between the water pipe and the

oil shown in ​Figure Q12​.

kPa. Pipe A has water flowing through it,

and oil is flowing in pipe B.
13. For the inclined manometer containing mercury shown in ​Figure

Q13​, determine the pressure in pipe B if the pressure in pipe A is 10

Figure Q13
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14. A differential manometer is connected at the two points A and B as

shown in ​Figure Q14​. At B air pressure is 98.1 kPa (abs), find the

absolute pressure at A.

oil of specific gravity 0.8. For the

manometer readings shown in the

figure, find the pressure difference between

A and B.

Figure Q14
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Figure Q15
15. In ​Figure Q15​, an inverted differential
manometer is connected to

two pipes A and B which convey water. The

fluid in manometer is
 and 1.0 and immiscible

and assume the pressures at A and B to be

equal.

conveying liquids of specific gravities 1.2

​ f an inverted U-tube manometer
16. Find out the differential reading ​h o

containing oil of specific gravity 0.7 as the manometric fluid when

connected across pipes A and B as shown in ​Figure Q16​,

with manometric fluid. Pipes A and B are located at the same level
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Figure Q16
Figure Q17

17. An inverted U-tube manometer is connected to two horizontal pipes

A and B through which water is flowing.

gravity 0.8 is used as a gauge fluid, the
The vertical distance
vertical heights of water
18. Compute the gauge pressure at points
A and B as shown ​Figure columns in the two of the inverted
manometer are found to be the
between the axis of these pipes is 30 cm.
same and equal to 35 cm. Determine the
When an oil of specific
pressure difference
Q18.
between the pipes.
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Figure Q18

19. Figure Q19 ​shows an open tank containing water with a depth of

1.5 m. The tank is 2.0 m high, 3.0 m wide and 4.0 long. What is the

pressure head in terms of mercury at the bottom of the tank?

Figure Q19

20. ​Compute the spefic gravity of liquid B in

Figure Q20 ​if the given
Figure Q20

pressure gauge at A is indicated as -10.89

kPa. Based on the

obtained value, identify the type of Liquid B.

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Answers
14 8.888 kPa 1 27.183 m
15 1.570 kPa 2 36 m of water
16 20 cm 3,924 Pa
17 2.354 kPa 3
3,531.6 Pa
18 - 18.192 kPa 53,366.4 Pa
8,829 Pa
19 0.111 m of mercury 4 ​
28,449 Pa
20 990 kg/m​3​, oil
5 22.222 kN
19.620 kPa
6​
120.603 kPa
13.986 m of water
7​
17.482 m of mercury
8 8,019 Pa
9 8.5 cm
10 0.174 m
11 15.618 kPa

12 P​A ​– P​B ​= 11.939 kPa 13

​ 2.115 kPa
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