SET I.

1. An iceberg having a specific gravity of 0.92 is floating on salt water of sp. gr. = 1.03 if the
volume of ice above the water surface is 800 cu. m. What is the total volume of the ice?

2. A block of wood 0.40m thick is floating in seawater. The specific gravity of wood is 0.70 while
that of seawater is 1.03. Find the minimum area of a block which will support a man weighing
100kg.

3. The block shown in Fig. 0.4 weighs 50,000lbs. Find the value of h.

4. If a 15kg steel plate is attached to one open of 0.1x0.5x2m wooden pole, what is the length
of the pole above water? Use Sp. Gr. of wood of 0.80. Neglect buoyant force of steel.

5. A wooden buoy sg=0.62 is 0.60mm by 60mm by 5m long is made to float in sea water
sg=1.025. How many is of steel sg=7.85 should be attached to the bottom to make buoy float
with exactly 450mm exposed above the water surface?

6. A piece of lead to sp=11.3 is tied to a 150cc of cork whose specific gravity is 0.25. They float
just submerged in water. What is the weight of the lead?

7. A stone weighs 540N in air when submerged in water, it weighs 460N. Find the volume and
specific gravity of the stone.

8. A uniform block of steel sp= 9.85 will float at a mercury. Water interface as shown in fig. 2.7.
What is the ratio of the distances "a" and "b" for this condition.

9. A hollow cylinder 2m diameter and 5m high weighs 3975N.

A. How many KN of lead weighing 150Kn/m^3 must be fastened to the outside bottom of the
cylinder to make it float with 3.5m submerged in water?

B. How many KN of lead if it is placed inside cylinder?

10. A stone cube 300mm on each side and weighing 525N is lowered into a tank containing a
layer of 1.50m thick over a layer of mercury. Determine the position of the block when it has
reached equilibrium

SET II.

1. A cube 2.5ft on an edge has its lower half of sg=1.6 and upper half sg=0.7. It rest in a two-
layer fluid, with lower sg=1.4 and upper sg=0.8. Determine the height of the top of the cube
about interface.

2. A wooden beam of sp=0.64 is 180mm by 180mm and is hinged at A. At what angle will the
beam float in the water?

3. A spherical balloon, 9m diameter is filled with helium gas pressurized to 115kpa at a

temperature of 25°C and anchored by a rope to the ground. Neglecting the dead weight of the
balloon, determine the tension in the rope. Use R=212m/°K for helium gas and yair=
11.76Kn/m^3

4. Consider an arbitrary shaped body with a submerged volume and a density, submerged in a
fluid of density. What is the net vertical force on the body due to hydrostatic forces?

5. A stone weighs 105lb in air. When submerged in water, it weighs 67lb. Find the volume and
specific gravity of the stone

6. A piece of irregularly shaped metal weighs 300N in air. When the metal is completely
submerged in water, it weighs 232.5N. Find the volume of the metal.

7. A cube of timber 1.25ft on each side floats in water as shown in figure 6-1. The specific
gravity of the timber is 0.60. Find the submerged depth of the cube.

8. A barge is loaded with 160 tons of coal. The weight of the empty barge in air is 45tons. If the
barge is 20ft wide, 56ft long and 12ft height. What is the draft (i.e its depth below the water
surface?)

9. Determine the submerged depth of a cube of steel 0.80m on each side floating in mercury.
The specific gravities of steel and mercury are 9.8 and 13.6, respectively.

10. A hollow cube 1.0m on each side weighs 2.4Kn. The cube is tied to a solid concrete block
weighing 10Kn. Will these two objects tied together float or sink in water? Sp=2.40.

SET III.

1. A cube of wood sg=0.60 has 9 sides. Compute the magnitude and direction of the force F
required to hold the wood completely submerged in water.

2. A concrete cube 0.5m on each side is to be held in equilibrium under water by attaching a
light foam buoy to it. What minimum volume of foam is required? The specific weighs of
concrete and foam are 23.58Kn/m^3 and 0.79Kn/m^3, respectively.

3. A prismatic object 8in thick by 8m wide by 16in long is weighed in water at a depth of 20in
and found to weigh 11lb. What is its weight in air and it's specific gravity?

4. A hydrometer weighs 0.00485lb and has a stem at the upper end which is cylindrical and
0.1100in in diameter. How much deeper will it floats in oil of sg=0.780 than alcohol of sg=
0.821?

5. A piece of wood of sg= 0.651 is 3in square and 5ft long. How many pounds of lead weighing
700lb/ft^3 must be fastened at one end of the stick si that it will float upright with 1ft out of
water?

6. What fraction of the volume of a solid piece of metal of sg=7.25 floats above the surface of a
container of mercury?
7. A rectangular open box 30ft by 15ft in plan and 18ft deep weighs 50tons and it launched in
freshwater.

A. How deep will it sink?

B. If the water is 18ft deep, what weight of stone placed in the box will cause it to rest on the
bottom?

8. A block of wood floats in water with 3in projecting above the water surface. When placed in
glycerin of 1.35sg, the blocks projects 5in above liquid surface. Determine the specific gravity of
the wood.

9. A barrel containing water weighs 283.5lb. What will be the reading on the scales if 2in by 2in
piece of wood held vertically in the water to a depth of 4ft.

10. Find the weigh of floating can.

SET IV.

1. The weight of a certain crown in air was found to 14N and its weight in water 13.7N was it
gold? Sg=19.3?

2. Repeat problem 1, assuming the crown is an alloy of gold sg=19.3 and silver sg=10.5. For the
same measured weighs, compute the fraction of the silver in crown.

3. A hydrometer weighs 0.19N and has a stem diameter of 12mm. What is the distance
between scale markings for sg =1 & sg=1.1 Between 1.1 & 1.2?

4. A wooden beam sg=0.64 is 150mm by 150mm by 7m and is hinged at A, as shown. At what

figure angle will the beam float in the water?

5. A barge weighs 55tons empty and 21ft wide, 48ft long and 12ft high. What will be it's draft
when loaded with 130tons of gravel and floating in seawater. Sg=1.025?

6. A block of steel sg=7.85 will float at mercury water interface as in Fig. 6-19. What will be the
ratio of distances a and b for this condition.

7. A block of wood requires force of 50N to get keep it immerse in water and a force of 180N to
keep it immersed in glycerin sg=1.3. Find the weight and Specific gravity of the wood.

8. A wooden spherical ball with specific gravity of 0.42 and a diameter of 400mm is dropped
from a height of 14.3m above the surface of water in a pool of unknown depth. The ball barely
touched the bottom of the pool before began to float. Determine the depth of the pool.

9. A plastic cube of side and sp= 0.82 is placed verticaly in water, is the cube is stable?
10. A solid wood cylinder of sp=0.6 is 800mm diameter and 1600mm high. If placed verticaly in
oil sp= 0.85, would it be stable?

SET V.

1. A ballon weighing 4.2lb is 6.5ft in diameter. Upon released it is field with hydrogen at 19psia
and 70°F. At what altitude in standard atmosphere will this ballon be neutrally buoyant?

2. A type writer weighs 8lb in water and 10lb in oil of sp.=0.86. Find the specific weight.

3. A balloon weighs 290lb and has a volume of 15.900ft^3. It is filled with helium, which weighs
0.0112 lb/ft^3 at the temperature and pressure of the air, which weighs 0.0807 lb/ft^3. What
load will the ballon support?

4. A small cylindrical drum 35cm in diameter and 55cm high, weighing 30N contains perfume
sg=0.83 to a depth of 25cm. (a.) when placed in water, which weighs 0.807lb/ft^3. What load
will be the depth y to the bottom of the drum? (b.) How much perfume can be the drum hold
and still float?

5. With how many pounds of concrete. y=25kn/m^3 must a beam of volume 0.5m^3 and
sg=0.67 be coated to insure that it sinks in water?

6. What is the weight of the loaded barge? The barge is 10m in width.

7. An iceberg y=12kn/m^3 floats in ocean water y=15kn/m^3 with 4000m^3 of the iceberg
protruding above the free surface. What is the volume of the ice berg below free surface?

8. The tank in fig. 6-27 is filled brimfull with water. If a cube 800mm on an edge and weigh 550N
is lowered slowly into the water until it floats. How much water flows over the edge of the
tank? Neglect sloshing, etc

9. A balloon is filled with 4000m^3 of hydrogen having a specific weight 1.1kn/m^3. What lift
does the ballon exert. (a) at the earth surface. If the balloon weigh 1600N and temperature is
25°C. (b) at an elevation of 10km assuming that the volume has increased 9%?

10. A wooden rod weighing 8lbs is hinged at one end. The rod is 12ft long and support is 6ft
below the free surface of the freshwater pond. At what angle will it come to rest when the
allowed to drop from a vertical position. The cross section of the stick is 1.8in^2 in area.