RAFANAN, KATHLEEN A.

BSED-SCIENCE 1

FLUID MECHANICS SECOND SEMESTER, S.Y.

2019-2020
PROBLEM SET 2
Due: May 2020

1. When you are sunbathing on a stony beach, why do the stones hurt your feet less when you’re
standing in deep water
In deep water buoyed up with the water displayed, a person don’t exert as much pressure
against the stones on the bottom. When one is going up to his/her neck in the water, he/she
hardly feel the bottom at all.

2. A steel tank filled with Helium gas does not rise in air, but a balloon containing the same
Helium rises easily. Why?
An object rises in air only when buoyant force exceeds its weight. The steel tank of
anything weighting more than the air it displaces, so it won’t rise. A helium filled balloon
weighs less than the balloon itself.

3. A cylindrical wooden buoy, of height of 3 m and mass 80 kg, floats vertically in water. If its
specific gravity is 0.80, how much will it be depressed when a body of mass 10 kg is placed on
its upper surface?

4. A man whose weight is 667 N and whose density is 980 kg/m 3 can just float in water with his
head above the surface with the help of a life jacket which is wholly immersed. Assuming that
the volume of his head is 1/15 of his whole volume and that the specific gravity of the life
jacket is 0.25, find the volume of the life jacket.
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5. A sealed tank containing seawater to a height of 11.0 m also contains air above the water at a
gauge pressure of 3.00 atm. Water flows out from the bottom through a small hole. Calculate
the efflux speed of the water.

6. Consider an airplane with a total wing surface of 100 m 2. At a certain speed the difference in
air pressure below and above the wings is 4% of atmospheric pressure. Show that the lift on
the airplane is 400,000 N.