Exercises

1 A circular cylinder of height 1.20 m having faces of diameter 0.620 m is immersed in

water of density 1.00 × 103 kg/m3 with its axis vertical so that its faces are parallel to the
surface of the water. The upper face is 2.50 m below the surface of the water. The net force
on this cylinder is observed to be 1120 N downward. Atmospheric pressure is 1.01 × 10 5
Pa. What is the weight of the cylinder?
RTA 4670 N

2 An incompressible fluid flows steadily through a pipe that has a change in diameter. The
fluid speed at a location where the pipe diameter is 8.0 cm is 1.28 m/s. What is the fluid
speed at a location where the diameter has narrowed to 4.0 cm?
RTA 5.12 m/s

3 Water, of density 1000 kg/m3, is flowing in a drainage channel of rectangular cross-

section. The width of the channel is 15 m, the depth of the water is 8.0 m and the speed of
the flow is 2.5 m/s. At what rate is water flowing in this channel?
RTA 3.0 × 105 kg/s

4 Water flowing through a pipe suddenly comes to a section of pipe where the pipe
diameter decreases to 86% of its previous value. If the speed of the water in the larger
section of the pipe was 36m/s, what is its speed in this smaller section?
RTA 49 m/s

5 Water is flowing in a horizontal pipe of diameter d. If you want to change the diameter of
this pipe so that the speed of the water would be half as great as it was, what should be the
new diameter?
RTA d 2

6 Incompressible water flows out of a large reservoir through a pipe that opens to the
atmosphere 5.70 m below the level of the water in the reservoir. What is the speed of the
water as it comes out of the pipe?

RTA 10.6 m/s

7 A horizontal tube consists of a 7.0-cm-diameter pipe that narrows to a 2.0-cm-diameter

throat. In the pipe, the water pressure is twice atmospheric pressure and the water flows
with a speed of 0.40 m/s. What is the pressure in the throat, assuming that the water
behaves like an ideal fluid? The density of water is 1000 kg/m 3, and atmospheric pressure
is 1.01 × 105 Pa.
RTA 1.9 atm

8 A large cylindrical water tank is mounted on a platform with its central axis vertical. The
water level is 3.75 m above the base of the tank, and base is 6.50 m above the ground. A
small hole 2.22 mm in diameter has formed in the base of the tank. Both the hole and the
top of the tank are open to the air. We can ignore air resistance and treat water as an ideal
fluid with a density of 1000 kg/m3.
(a) How many cubic meters of water per second is this tank losing?
(b) How fast is the water from the hole moving just as it reaches the ground?
RTA (a) 3.26 × 10-5 m3/s (b) 14.2 m/s

9 Air is flowing through a rocket nozzle. Inside the rocket the air has a density of 5.25
kg/m3 and a speed of 1.20 m/s. The interior diameter of the rocket is 15.0 cm. At the nozzle
exit, the diameter is 2.50 cm and the density is 1.29 kg/m 3. What is the speed of the air
when it leaves the nozzle?

RTA 176 m/s

10 A level pipe contains a nonviscous, incompressible fluid with a density 1200 kg/m 3 that
is flowing steadily. At one position within the pipe, the pressure is 300 kPa and the speed of
the flow is 20.0 m/s. At another position, the pressure is 200 kPa. What is the speed of the
flow at this second position?

RTA 23.8 m/s