PREBOARD 2 – PROBLEM SETS, 2ND SEM AY 19-20Prepared by: ENGR. DIANNE C.

OLIVER
NAME: ________________________________________

Instruction: Write your answers on a separate sheet of paper. Write only your name, section, and answers in each
number. When done, take a photo of your paper with your ID on it (any ID will do as long as it is yours). Send
the picture to me thru PM on messenger.

FLUID MECHANICS

1-3: An open cylindrical tank having a radius of 0.30 m and a height of 1.20 m is filled with water at a depth of 0.90 m.

1. How fast in rpm will it be rotated about its vertical axis if half of its volume is spilled out?
a. 191.54 b. 178.34 c. 156.21 d. 145.84

2. Find the speed of rotation in rpm about its vertical axis so that no water will be spilled out?
a. 132.85 b. 121.70 c. 133.84 d. 109.21

3. Determine the speed of rotation in rpm about its vertical axis to produce zero pressure with 0.20 m from the center of
the tank.
a. 207.22 b. 222.75 c. 198.56 d. 211.45

4-6: A concrete dam retaining water is shown. If unit weight of concrete is 23.5 kN/cu m,

4. Calculate the hydrostatic force.

a. 184.75 b. 176.20 c. 155.26 d. 194.17

5. Calculate the factor of safety against overturning. Use μ = 0.48

a. 3.42 b. 2.75 c. 1.86 d. 1.54

6. Calculate the minimum pressure intensity.

a. 56.9 kPa b. 64.7 kPa c. 73.4 kPa d. 82.6 kPa

7-9: Describe the following terms as follows:

7. A ship floating in seawater is stable if the metacentric height is:

a. below the center of gravity
b. above the center of gravity
c. coincides with the center of gravity
d. the draft of the ship causes a buoyant force equal to the weight of the ship and its cargo.

8. A device used to measure pressure heads in pipes where the liquid is in motion.
a. U tube b. Barometer c. Piezometer d. Manometer

9. It refers to the pressures that are above or below the atmosphere and can be measured by pressure gages or
manometers.
a. Atmospheric pressure
b. Barometric pressure
c. Absolute pressure
d. Relative pressure

10. A gage pressure at elevation 6 m at the side of a tank containing a liquid reads 80 kPa. Another gage at elevation 4 m
reads 100 kPa. What is the specific gravity of the liquid?
a. 1.02 b. 1.04 c. 1.21 d. 1.14