Practice Quiz 12

1) Salt water is more dense than fresh water. A ship floats in both fresh water and salt water.
Compared to the fresh water, the volume of salt water displaced by the ship is
A) greater than the volume of fresh water.
B) less than the volume of fresh water.
C) the same as the volume of fresh water.
Answer: B
2) A rock is under water in a shallow lake. As the rock sinks deeper and deeper into water, the
buoyant force on it
A) increases.
B) decreases.
C) remains constant.
Answer: C
3) A piece of wood is floating in a bathtub. A second piece of wood sits on top of the first piece,
and does not touch the water. If the top piece is taken off and placed in the water, what happens
to the water level in the tub?
A) It goes up.
B) It goes down.
C) It does not change.
D) This cannot be determined without knowing the volume of the top piece of wood.
Answer: C
4) What is the radius of a sphere that has a density of 5000 kg/m3 and a mass of 6.00 kg?
A) 4.98 cm
B) 1.27 cm
C) 6.59 cm
D) 1.56 cm
E) 7.22 cm
Answer: C
5) A cubical box, 5.00 cm on each side, is immersed in a fluid. The gauge pressure at the top
surface of the box is 594 Pa and the gauge pressure on the bottom surface is 1133 Pa. What is the
density of the fluid?
A) 1000 kg/m3
B) 1100 kg/m3
C) 1220 kg/m3
D) 2340 kg/m3
E) 12,000 kg/m3
Answer: B
6) In the figure, an open tank contains a layer of oil floating on top of a layer of water (of density
1000 kg/m3) that is 3.0 m thick, as shown. What must be the thickness of the oil layer if the
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gauge pressure at the bottom of the tank is to be 5.0 × 10 Pa? The density of the oil is 510
3
kg/m .
7) A barge is 15.0 m wide and 75.0 m long and has vertical sides. The bottom of the hull is 1.20
m below the water surface. What is the weight of the barge and its cargo, if it is floating in fresh
water of density 1000 kg/m3?
A) 22.6 MN
B) 13.2 MN
C) 1.35 MN
D) 1.13 MN
E) 11.3 MN
Answer: B
8) In the figure, an open tank contains a layer of oil floating on top of a layer of water (of density
1000 kg/m3) that is 3.0 m thick, as shown. What must be the thickness of the oil layer if the
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gauge pressure at the bottom of the tank is to be 5.0 × 10 Pa? The density of the oil is 510
3
kg/m .
A) 11 m
B) 10 m
C) 6.2 m
D) 5.1 m
E) 4.1 m
Answer: E
9) A 6.1-kg solid sphere, made of metal whose density is 2600 kg/ m3, is suspended by a cord.
When the sphere is immersed in a liquid of unknown density, the tension in the cord is 26 N.
Find the density of the liquid.
A) 1500 kg/m3
B) 1400 kg/m3
C) 1300 kg/m3
D) 1200 kg/m3
E) 1100 kg/m3
Answer: A
10) 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?
A) 49 m/s
B) 42 m/s
C) 31 m/s
D) 27 m/s
Answer: A
11) 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?
A) d/4
B) d/2
C) d / 2
D) d 2
E) 2d
Answer: D