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CE 343L – FLUID MECHANICS – 1ST EXAM

FIRST EXAMINATION
INSTRUCTIONS:
a. Write your solutions and answers on the examination booklet.
b. No borrowing of calculator.
c. CHEATING IS PROHIBITED! Mind your own paper. Any act of cheating (using of cellular phones, books, and lecture materials
during examination, copying answers from your seatmate, etc.) will result to failure of examination.
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1. Water in a hydraulic press, initially at 20 psi, is
subjected to a pressure of 17,000 psi at 68°F.
Determine the percentage decrease in specific
volume if the average bulk modulus of elasticity is
365,000 psi.

2. Air is kept at a pressure of 200 Kpa and at a

temperature of 30 °C in a 500 L container. What is
the mass of the air?

3. The tank of leaky air compressor originally holds 90

L of air at 33°C and 225 kPa. During the
compression process, 4 grams of air is lost; the 8. Determine the pressure difference between A and
remaining air occupies 42 L at 550 kPa. What is the B.
temperature of the remaining air?

4. Convert 15.14 poise to kinematic viscosity in

square feet per second if the liquid has a specific
gravity of 0.964.

5. A shaft 70.0 mm in diameter is being pushed at a

speed of 400 mm/s through a bearing sleeve 70.2
mm in diameter and 250 mm long. The clearance,
assumed uniform, is filled with oil with v = 0.005
m2/s and s = 0.9. Find the force exerted by the oil on 9. A force of 460 N is exerted on lever AB as shown in
the shaft. the figure. End B is connected to a piston which fits
into a cylinder having a diameter of 60 mm. What
6. The glass tube in the figure is used to measure force FD acts on the larger piston, if the volume
pressure P, in the water tank. The tube diameter is between C and D is filled with water?
1 mm .  = 0.0712 N/m. What is the true static
height?

7. Determine the pressure at D. 10. Calculate the absolute pressure at A.

 College of Engineering Education
2nd Floor, BE Building
Matina Campus, Davao City
Telefax: (082)296-1084
Phone No.: (082)300-5456/300-0647 Local 131