RYAN INTERNATIONAL SCHOL, GHAZIABAD

2020-2021
CHAPTER: MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF FLUIDS
WORKSHEET
TOPIC: ABSOLUTE & GAUGE PRESSURE

1. Toricelli’s barometer used mercury. Pascal duplicated it using French wine of density
984 kg m-3. Determine the height of the wine column for normal atmosphere.
2. What is the pressure on a swimmer 10 m below the surface of a lake?
3. A vertically offshore structure is built to withstand a maximum stress of 109 Pa. is the
structure suitable for putting up on top of an oil well in Bombay high? Take the depth of
the sea to be roughly 3 km and ignore ocean currents.
4. The manual of a car instructs the owner to inflate the tyres to a pressure of 200 kPa.
(a) What is the recommended gauge pressure?
(b) What is the recommended absolute pressure?
(c) If, after the required inflation of the tyres, the car is driven to a mountain peak where
the atmospheric pressure is 10 % below that at sea level, what will the tyre gauge
read?
5. At the depth of 1000 m in ocean:
(a) What is the absolute pressure?
(b) What is the gauge pressure?
(c) Find the force acting on the window of area 20 cm x 20 cm of a submarine at this
depth, the interior of which is maintained at sea-level atmospheric pressure. (The
density of sea water is 1.03 x 103 kg m-3, g = 10 m s-2)
6.