ABE 31: SETWORK. Due is on April 25, 2023.

Random Board work

every class schedule.
1. A rectangular water tank, 2 meters high, is filled with water. Due to rust, a circular
hole was made on lowest portion of one side of the tank. Considering that the tank is
maintained full, what is the velocity of water right after its take-off from the hole?

2. A 10-inch diameter pipe is flowing 1/3 full. What is the velocity of the water if the
volume of flow is 135 gpm?

3. The difference between the square of a number and the number is 42. What is the
number?

4. Evaporation in a 19.77-acre farm is 7mm/day and percolation losses is 2 mm/day.

What is the design discharge of a canal to be able to deliver a 5 – day requirement of
the farm in 24 hours. If irrigation efficiency is 75%.

5. A 50 – ha plantation is to be irrigated by furrows. The depth of root zone is 1m. the

consumptive use is 8mm/day, the readily available moisture is 15cm/m, the losses due
to deep percolation and conveyance are 15% and 10%, respectively. Estimate the
required irrigation capacity in m3/s:

6. If the speed of an irrigation centrifugal pump is increased by 30%, the power

requirement is increased by:

7. The operating pressure of the sprinkler heads used in a sprinkler system is 12.52
kg/sq.cm. What is the allowable allowable pressure variation between the first
sprinkler and the last sprinkler of a lateral?

8. Delivery of 0.5m3/s to a 74 – acre field is continued for 40 hrs. Tailwater flow is

estimated at 1548.39 gpm. Soil water measurement after the irrigation indicates that
6.3 in. of water has been stored in the rrot zone. Compute the application efficiency.

9. Determine the flow in a trapezoidal irrigation canal with a bottom width of 6.6ft. and a
side slope of 1V: 2H if the specific energy at critical depth is 1.5 m. The difference in
elevation of the water surface at points 120m apart is 0.2789 ft. Assume roughness
coefficient of 0.015.

10. A farmer collected a soil sample two days after irrigation. The cylindrical sample has
the following dimensions: radius – 0.42ft; height – 203.2 mm. The sampke weighed
3000g before drying and 5.148 lbs after drying. Estimate the field capacity per meter
depth of soil.

11. A sharp-edged cylinder 7.5 cm in diameter is carefully driven into the soil. A 4.724
inches column of soil is obtained. The fresh and dry masses of the soil sample are 910.6
and 736.3 grams, respectively. Assume particle density of the soil is 2600 kg/m3.
Determine the percent porosity.

12. The potential evapotranspiration for the period of September 1-30, 2004 in Laguna
was computed to be 5.8 mm/day. Compute the crop water requirement of a 100-ha
farm in the area planted to rice (crop coefficient is 1.3) assuming 10-day irrigation
interval, 2mm/day percolation, and an 8 –hr irrigation period.
13. What is the design throw of the sprinkler nozzles if sprinkler spacing is 8m x 8m with
45% overlap?

14. What is the gross depth of irrigation water to be applied to a soil with PWP and FC of
12% and 20%, respectively by weight if allowable depletion is 75%? Bulk density is
1320 kg/m3, depth of root zone is 60 cm and irrigation efficiency is 55%.

15. A culvert has a diameter of 2m. The depth of water is 1.8m. If θ is equal to 257.32º,
determine the hydraulic radius of the culvert.

16. A sprinkler spacing of 15m x 18m and an application rate of 12mm/hr will require a
sprinkler with a capacity of

17. If the impeller speed is increased from 1800 rpm to 2340 rpm, the resulting power will
be how many times than the original?

18. 11 men can finish the job in 15 days. 5 men were working at start and after 6 days, 4
men were added. How many days will it take to finish the job?

19. In a quadratic equation problem, one student made a mistake in copying the coefficient
of X and got a root of +3 and – 2. Another student made a mistake by copying the
constant term and got a root of +3 and +2.Which of is one of the correct roots?

20. Find the smallest of three consecutive integers whose sum is 75.

21. A circle whose center is at the origin passes through (4,3). The length of the radius of
the circle is

22. The area of a triangle is 72 sq. cm. If the base is four times the altitude, what is the
length of the base?

23. How many gallons of a liquid that is 74% alcohol must be combined with 5 gallons of
one that is 90% alcohol in order to obtain a mixture that is 84% alcohol?

24. The entire surface of a solid cube with length of 8 cm is painted. The cube is then cut
into smaller cubes each with length 1 cm. How many of the smaller cubes have paint
on exactly one face?

25. A ladder 20 ft-long lean against a wall of a vertical building. If the bottom of the ladder
slides away from the building horizontally at the rate 2fi/s, how fast is the ladder
sliding down the building when the top of the ladder is 12 ft above the ground?

26. A stone is thrown vertically upward from the ground with an initial velocity of 128
ft/s. If the only force considered is that attributed to the acceleration due to gravity,
whose approximate constant value is a = -32 ft/s2, how long will it take for the stone to
strike the ground?
 27. Streamflow in a river was measured at various stages using a current meter. The results
are given below:
Discharge (m3/s) Stage h (m)
27.2 3.7
21.7 2.8
78.4 5.4
9.7 1.9
166.7 7.9
128.1 6.3
159.6 7.1
129.5 7.0
78.7 4.8
32.7 3.6

The stage-discharge relation of the form q = ahb is to be developed. Based on the observed
data, the value of the exponent b is _____.

28. A 30-inch diameter I-meter long culvert has been designed to carry a maximum discharge
of 1.7 m3/s when flowing half-full. Its roughness coefficient n is 0.014. If the inlet and the
outlet are both unsubmerged, the difference in elevation between the inlet and the outlet
should be _________.

29. The most hydraulically efficient trapezoidal channel section to carry a discharge of 5 m3/s
on a bed material with a roughness n of 0.02 and a bottom slope of 1 in 800 should have a
bottom width of _________.

30. A concrete-lined trapezoidal canal is to carry a maximum discharge of 2.0 m3/s. The
required head loss over a horizontal distance of 1 km is 2.0 m. The side slope is to be set at
1: 1 and the permissible b/d ratio is 3. If the Manning's roughness coefficient is 0.015, the
normal depth required is________.

31. Compute the land soaking requirement for a soil (depth of rootzone = 40cm) with residual
moisture content of 18% by mass, bulk density of 1,280 kg/m and porosity of 45%.
Standing water for planting is 30 mm.

32. Determine the minimum allowable diameter for a 400-ft long aluminum mainline pipe in
a sprinkler system if the average operating pressure is 50 psi. Lateral discharge is 0.5 lps
with three laterals operating at the same time.

33. Determine the moisture content of a soil with 35% of its available moisture retained. Field
capacity and permanent wilting point are 30% and 14% by mass, respectively.

34. The 60 cm deep rootzone of a soil (bulk density of 1400 kg/m3) has field capacity and
wilting point of 0.32 and 0.22 by mass respectively. Crop consumptive use is 8 mm / day
compute for the irrigation interval assuming 2 mm/day of rainfall and 75% allowable
moisture depletion.

35. What is the design discharge of a canal to be able to deliver a 9-day requirement of a 7.5-
ha farm in 10 hours if the irrigation requirement is 7mm/day?
36. How many sprinkler heads should be installed in a fixed irrigation system for a 300m x
300m area if sprinkler spacing is 30ft x 40 ft?

37. If the irrigation requirement is 6.5 mm/day, what is the design discharge of a canal to be
able to deliver a 12-day requirement of a 10-ha farm in 11 hours?

38. For a 9m x 9m sprinkler spacing, what is the design sprinkler throw for a 40% overlap?

39. How many sprinklers with spacing of 7m x 7m are needed to irrigate a rectangular piece
of land 125 m x 190m if the laterals are set parallel to the longer side of the field?

40. A soil sample was obtained using a cylindrical soil sampler with a 4” diameter and 10”
height. After oven drying, the sample weighed 2,470 grams. What is the soil’s bulk
density?