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1. Air at 20°C and 1 atm flows at 20 m/s past the flat plate in Fig. 1. A pitot
stagnation tube, placed 2 mm from the wall, develops a manometer head h = 16
mm of Meriam red oil, SG = 0.827. Use this information to estimate the
downstream position x of the pitot tube. Assume laminar flow.

2. Suppose you buy a 4- by 8-ft sheet of plywood and put it on your roof rack.
(See Fig.2.) You drive home at 35 mi/h. (a) Assuming the board is perfectly
aligned with the airflow, how thick is the boundary layer at the end of the
board? (b) Estimate the drag on the sheet of plywood if the boundary layer
remains laminar. (c) Estimate the drag on the sheet of plywood if the boundary-
layer is turbulent (assume the wood is smooth), and compare the result to that of
the laminar boundary-layer case.

3.The cross section of a cylinder is shown in Fig.3. Assume that on the front
surface the velocity is given by potential theory, V =2U∞ sin , from which the
surface pressure is computed by Bernoulli’s equation. In the separated flow on
the rear, the pressure is assumed equal to its value at = 90°. Compute the
theoretical drag coefficient and compare with Table 7.2 (White).
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4.A heavy sphere attached to a string should hang at an angle when immersed
in a stream of velocity U, as in Fig. 4. Derive an expression for as a function
of the sphere and flow properties. What is if the sphere is steel (SG = 7.86) of
diameter 3 cm and the flow is sea-level standard air at U= 40 m/s? Neglect the
string drag.

5.A cup anemometer uses two 5-cm-diameter hollow hemispheres connected to

15-cm rods, as in Fig. 5. Rod drag is negligible, and the central bearing has a
retarding. Torque of 0.004 N.m. Making simplifying assumptions to average out
the time-varying geometry, estimate and plot the variation of anemometer
rotation rate  with wind velocity U in the range 0 < U < 25 m/s for sea-level
standard air.