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1 Steel is more elastic than rubber. Why?

2 Which is more elastic, water or air? Why?

3 The spherical ball contracts in volume by 0.1% when subjected to a uniform normal pressure of 100 atmospheres
calculate the bulk modulus of material of ball?

4 Two wires are made of same metal. The length of the first wire is half that of the second wire and its diameter is
double that of the second wire. If equal loads are applied on both wires, find the ratio of increase in their lengths.

5 The stress –strain graphs for materials A and B are as shown in figure. The graphs are drawn to the same scale.

(a) Which of the materials has the greater Young’s modulus?

(b) Which of the two is the stronger material?
6 The stress strain curve for a metal wire is given in figure.
Up to the point B, wire returns to original state O along D
the curve BAO, when it is gradually unloaded. Point E
corresponds to the fracture point of the wire. B C
E
(a) Up to which point of curve, is the Hooke’s law
Stress

A
obeyed?
(b) Which point on the curve corresponds to elastic
limit and yield point of the wire?
(c) Indicate the elastic and plastic regions of the
stress-strain curve.
O O’ Strain
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7 In the following stress – strain curve, which has:-
1) Greater young’s Modulus
2) More Ductility
3) More Tensile strength.

8 Two different types of rubber are found to have the stress – strain curves as shown in the figure stress

1) In what ways do these curves suffer from the stress- strain curve of a metal wire?
2) Which of the two rubbers A and B would you prefer to be installed in the working of a heavy machinery
3) Which of these two rubbers would you choose for a car tyre?

9 A soda water bottle is falling freely. Will the bubbles of the gas rise in the water of the bottle?

10 Why the rain drops are generally spherical in shape?

11 In a car lift compressed air exerts a force F on a small piston having a radius of 5cm. The pressure is transmitted to a
second piston of radius of 15cm. if mass of car to be lifted is 1350kg. Calculate the value of F. what is pressure
necessary to accomplish this task?

12 Water flows faster than honey. Why?

13 The excess pressure inside a soap bubble is thrice the excess pressure inside a second soap bubble. What is the ratio
between the volume of first and second bubble.

14 What is the pressure inside a drop of mercury of radius 3mm at room temperature? Surface tension of mercury at
that temperature is 4.65 × 10−1 N m−1 .The atmospheric pressure is 1.01 ×105 Pa. Also find excess pressure inside
the drop.

15 The blood pressure of humans is greater at the feet than at the brain?

16 At what depth in an ocean will a tube of air have one – fourth volume it will have on reaching the surface? Given
Atmospheric Pressure = 76 cm of Hg and density of Hg = 13.6g/cc?
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17 A liquid stands at the same level in the U – lube when at rest. If A is the area of cross section of tube and g is the
acceleration due to gravity, what will be the difference in height of the liquid in the two limbs when the system is
given acceleration ‘a’ to the right side?

18 Eight rain drops of radius 1mm each falling down with the terminal velocity of 5cm s -1 combine to form a bigger
drop. Find the terminal velocity of the bigger drop.

19 Find the work done in blowing a soap bubble of surface tension 0.06 N/m from 2cm radius to 5cm radius?

20 A liquid drop of diameter 4 mm breaks into 1000 droplets of equal size. Calculate the resultant change in the surface
energy. Surface tension of the liquid is 0.07 N/m?

21 What is the work done in splitting a drop of water of 1 mm radius into 64 droplets? Given the surface tension of
water is 72 × 10−3 N/m 2?

22 Calculate the radius of new bubble formed when two bubbles of radius r 1andr 2coalesce?
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23 Water rises in a capillary tube but mercury falls in the same tube. Why?

24 Why is a soap solution a better cleansing agent than ordinary water?

25 Water flows through a horizontal pipe of which the cross – section is not constant. The pressure is 1cm of mercury
where the velocity is 0.35m/s. Find the pressure at a point where the velocity is 0.65m/s.

26 What is equation of continuity? Water plows through a horizontal pipe of radius, 1cm at a speed of 2m/s. What
should be the diameter of nozzle if water is to come out at a speed of 10m/s?

27 A horizontal pipe of diameter 20 cm has a constriction of diameter 4 cm. The velocity of water in the pipe is 2m/s
and pressure is 10 N/m 2. Calculate the velocity and pressure at the constriction?

28 When we try to close a water tap with our fingers, fast jets of water gust through the openings between our fingers.
Explain why?

29 1) Water flows steadily along a horizontal pipe at a rate of 8 × 10−3 m3/s. If the area of cross – section of the pipe is
40 ×10−4 m2 , Calculate the flow velocity of water.
2) Find the total pressure in the pipe if the static pressure in the horizontal pipe is 3 × 104 Pa. Density of water is
1000 Kg/m 3.
3. What is the net flow velocity if the total pressure is 3.6 × 104 Pa?

30 A body cools from 80℃ to 50℃ in 5 minutes. Calculate the time it takes to cool from 60℃ to 30℃. The temperature
of the surroundings is 20℃.