Civil Engineering November 2020
BASE UNITS, PROPERTIES OF FLUIDS, AND
UNIT PRESSURES
1. A certain type of jet fuel in a 1.25-m3 container
has a mass of 969 kg.
a. What is its mass density?
b. What is its specific weight?
c. What is its gravity force?
2. The closed tank is filled with water and is 5 m
long. The pressure gage on the tank reads 50
kPa. Determine:
a. the height, h, in the open water column.
b. the gage pressure acting on the bottom
tank surface AB.
c. the absolute pressure of the air in the top
of the tank.
3. The pressure gage in a given tank reads 134
mm Hg. Calculate the equivalent height of
column of oil.
4. Determine the gage pressure at A in the given
open-type manometer.
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7. If the atmospheric pressure is 0.900 bar abs
and a gage attached to a tank reads 390 mmHg
vacuum, what is the absolute pressure within
the tank?
Ans. 38 kPa
8. Two pipes on the same elevation convey
water and oil of specific gravity 0.88
respectively. They are connected by a U-tube
manometer with the manometric liquid
having a specific gravity of 1.25. If the
manometric liquid in the limb connecting the
water pipe is 2 m higher than the other find
the pressure difference in two pipes, in kPa, if
h = 3 m.
Ans. 10.8 kPa
5. A 3-mm Ø tube is inserted in mercury and
later in water.
a. Assuming the tube is clean so that its
angle of contact with water is 0° and the
surface tension is 0.0728 N/m, what is
the amount of rise?
b. Assuming the tube is clean so that its
angle of contact with mercury is 140° and
the surface tension is 0.5140 N/m, what
is the amount of depression.
PROBLEMS FOR PRACTICE:
9. An unknown immiscible liquid seep into the
bottom of an open oil tank. Some
6. A pressure gage 7 .0 m above the bottom of a
measurements indicate that the depth of the
tank containing a liquid reads 64.94 kPa;
unknown liquid is 1.5 m and the depth of the
another gage at height 4.0 m reads 87.53 kPa.
oil (specific weight = 8.5 kN/m3) floating on
Compute the specific weight and mass
top is 5.0 m. A pressure gage connected to the
density of the fluid.
bottom of the tank reads 65 kPa. What is the
Ans. 7.53 kN/m3; 768 kg/m3
specific gravity of the unknown liquid?
Ans. 1.53
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