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CAMARINES NORTE STATE COLLEGE

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College of Engineering
CE 108Summ
– Hydraulics
Second Semester, AY 2022-2023

Example Problems: (Hydrostatic Force on Plane and Curved Surfaces;

Buoyancy; Rectilinear Translation and Rotation)
1. Determine the resultant force F due to water acting on the 3 m by 6
m rectangular area AB shown.
2. Determine the resultant force due to water acting on the 4 m by 6 m
triangular area CD shown. The apex of the triangle is at C.
4. Oil of sp. gr 0.750 is flowing through a 150-mm pipe under a
pressure of 103 kPa. If the total energy relative to a datum plane
2.40 m below the center of the pipe is 17.9 m-kN/kN, determine the
flow of oil.
5. For the 100-mm-diameter suction pipe leading to a pump shown, the
pressure at point A in the suction pipe is a vacuum of 180 mm of
mercury. If the discharge is 0.0300 m /s of oil (sp. gr = 0.85), find the
total energy head at point A with respect to a datum at the pump.

Problem 1 and 2
3. The 6-ft-diameter cylinder weighs 5000lb and is 5ft long. Determine
the reactions at A and B, neglecting friction.

4. A stone weighs 90 N in air, and when immersed in water it weighs 50

N. Compute the volume of the stone and its specific gravity.
5. A hydrometer weighs 0.0216 N and has a stem at the upper end that
is cylindrical and 2.8 mm in diameter. How much deeper will it float in
oil of sp. gr 0.780 than in alcohol of sp. gr 0.821? 6. A turbine is rated at 450 kW when the flow of water through it is
6. To what depth will an 8-ft-diameter log 15 ft long and of sp gr 0.425 0.609 m /s. Assuming an efficiency of 87%, what head is acting on
sink in fresh water? the turbine?
7. A rectangular tank 20 ft long by 6 ft deep by 7 ft wide contains 3 ft of 7. A gas flows through a square conduit. At one point along the conduit,
water. If the linear acceleration horizontally in the direction of the the conduit sides are 0.100m, the velocity is 7.55m/s, and the gas's
tank's length is 8.05 ft/sec, (a) compute the total force due to the mass density is (for its particular pressure and temperature) 1.09
water acting on each end of the tank and (b) show that the difference kg/m. At a second point, the conduit sides are 0.250m and the
between these forces equals the unbalanced force necessary to velocity is 2.02m/s. Find the mass flow rate of the gas and the gas's
accelerate the liquid mass. mass density at the second point.
8. An open tank of water accelerates down a 15° inclined plane at 16.1 8. A pipe carrying oil of sp. gr 0.877 changes in size from 150 mm at
ft/sec. What is the slope of the water surface? section E to 450 mm at section R. Section E is 3.66 m lower than R,
9. A closed cylindrical tank 1.8 m high and 0.9 m in diameter contains and the pressures are 91.0 kPa and 60.3 kPa, respectively. If the
1.4 m of water. When the angular velocity is constant at 20.0 rad/s, discharge is 0.146 m /s, determine the lost head and the direction of
how much of the bottom of the tank is uncovered? flow.
10. A 70-mm-diameter pipe, 1.2 m long, is just filled with oil of sp gr 9. A 6″ pipe 600 ft long
0.822 and then capped. Placed in a horizontal position, it is rotated carries water from A
at 27.5 rad/s about a vertical axis 300 mm from one end. What at elevation 80.0ft
pressure is developed at the far end of the pipe? to B at elevation
120.0 ft. The
Example Problems: (Volume Flow Rate, Mass Flow Rate, Weight Flow frictional stress
Rate, Continuity Equation, Energy Equation) between the liquid
1. Benzene flows through a 100mm diameter pipe at a mean velocity of and the pipe walls
3m/s. Find the volume flow rate in m3/s and L/min; weight flow rate; is 0.62 lb/ft.
and mass flow rate. Determine the
2. The flow rate of air moving through a square 0.50m by 0.50m duct is pressure change in
160m3/min. What is the mean velocity of the air? the pipe and the
3. Assume the conduit shown has inside diameters of 12in and 18in at lost head.
sections 1 and 2 respectively. If water is flowing in the conduit at a 10. The water in the tank is being filled through section 1 at 5m/s and
velocity of 16.6ft/s at section 2. Find the velocity at section 1; volume through section 3 at 0.012m3/s. If the water level h is constant,
flow rate at section 1; volume flow rate at section 2; weight flow rate; determine the exit velocity at 2.
and mass flow rate.