WOLAITA SODO UNIVERSITY

COLLEGE OF NATURAL AND COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE

DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS
GENERAL PHYSICS (Phys 1011) WORKSHEET OF CHAPTER 3 & 4

I. Solve the following problems step by step!

1. A liquid compressed in a cylinder has a volume of 100m3 of 1MN/m2 and a volume 99m3 at
2MN/m2. Find bulk Modulus and compressibility coefficient of fluid.
2. A steel pipe 3.6cm long is placed vertically under a sagging floor to support it. The inside
diameter of the pipe is 80mm, its outside diameter is 100mm, and Y=2x1011 Pa. A sensitive
strain gauge indicates that the pipe’s length decreases 0.1mm.What is the magnitude of the
load the pipe support?
3. Two parallel and opposite forces, each 4000N are applied tangentially to the upper and lower
faces of cubical metal block 25cm on a side. Find the angle of shear and the displacement of
upper surface relative to the lower surface. ( let the shear modulus for themetal is 80GPa)
4. Water in a hydraulic press, initially a 20 Pa is subjected to a pressure of 17000Pa at 680F.
Determine the percentage decrease in specific volume if the average bulk modulusof
elasticity is 365000Pa.
5. A block of wood floats in freshwater with two-fifth of its volume V submerged and in oilwith
0.75V submerged. Find the density of (a) the wood and (b) the oil.
6. When an object is immersed in a liquid at rest, why is the net force on the object in the horizontal
direction equal to zero?
7. Show that the coefficient of volume expansion is three times the coefficient of linear
expansion. i.e. 𝜸 =3α
8. Four tires of an automobile are inflated to a gauge pressure of 2.0 *105pa. Each tire hasan
area of 0.024m2 in contact with the ground. Determine the weight of the automobile.

9. Prove that the continuity equation satisfies the relation = = constant, where A is an
area, t is time and V is the fluid speed.

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10. A chunk of steel with a mass of 1.57 kg absorbs net thermal energy of 2.5*105 J and rises its
temperature by 355°C. What is the specific heat of the steel?
11. Convert the following temperature scale reading accordingly.

a) 70 0 F to 0 C

b) 98.60 F to K

c) 1000 C to F

12. Write the difference between elastic and plastic materials.

13. A solid brass sphere is initially surrounded by air, and the air pressure exerted on it is
(normal atmospheric pressure). The sphere is lowered into the ocean to a depth
where the pressure is . If the volume of the sphere in air is 0.5m3, by how much
does this volume change once the sphere is submerged?

14. A submerged wreck is located 20 m beneath the surface of the ocean off the coast of South
Florida (The density of sea water is 1025 kg/ ). Determine the,
a) gauge pressure and
b) absolute pressure on a scuba diver who is exploring the wreck. The small piston of a hydraulic
lift has an area of .

15. A car weighing sits on a rack mounted on the large piston. The large piston has an
area of . How large force must be applied to the small piston to support the car?

16. What are the factors that affect the of streamline flow of fluids?

17. A 200-kg load is hung on a wire having a length of 4 m, cross-sectional area , and
Young’s modulus . What is its increase in length?

18. Lead has a greater density than iron, and both are denser than water. Is the buoyant force on a
lead object greater than, less than, or equal to the buoyant force on an iron object of the same
volume?

19. Water circulates throughout a house in a hot water heating system. If the water is pumped at a
speed of 0.5m/s through a 4cm diameter pipe in the basement under a pressure of 3.03 105 Pa,
what will be the velocity and pressure in a 2.6cm diameter pipe on the second floor 5.m above?

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20. What does it mean by thermal expansion and list the three commonly encountered types of
thermal expansion.

21. Write the similarity and difference between work and heat.

22. What is the difference between specific heat and latent heat?

23. A liquid of unknown specific heat at a temperature of 20oC was mixed with water at 80oC in a well-
insulated container. The final temperature was measured to be 50oC, and the combined mass of the two
liquids was measured to be 240g. In a second experiment with both liquids at the same initial
temperatures, 20 g lass of the liquid of unknown specific heat was poured into the same amount of
water as before. This time the equilibrium temperature was found to be 52oC. Determine the specific
heat of the liquid if the specific heat of water is 4187 J/KgoC.

24. A 2000 J of heat leaves the system and 5000 J of work is done on the system. What is the change in
internal energy of the system?

25. Suppose two objects are in thermal equilibrium with each other. If the temperature of first object is 50
o
C, then what will be the temperature of the second object?

26. A gas is compressed at a constant pressure of 0.8atm from 9 L to 2 L. In the process, 400J of energy
leaves the gas by heat.
(a) What is the work done on the gas? (b) What is the change in its internal energy?

27. A system absorbs 35J of heat and in the process it does 11J of work.
(a) If the initial internal energy is 205J, what is the final internal energy?
(b) The system follows a different thermodynamic path to the same final state and does 15J of work, what
is the heat transferred?

28. What is meant by thermodynamics system? How do you classify it?

29. When a system is said to be in” Thermodynamic equilibrium?

30. Write the statement of zeroth law of Thermodynamics.

31. What happens to energy, work and entropy of an isolated system?

32. A 1.6 m long steel piano wire has a diameter of 0.2 cm. How great is the tension in the wire if
it stretches 0.25 cm when tightened?
33. A mining worker gets an unknown mineral with a volume of 20 cm3 and a mass of 54 g. What
is the specific gravity of the mineral?

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34. A pendulum consists of a big sphere of mass m = 30 kg hung from the end of a steel wire that
has a length of 15 m, a cross-sectional area of 9×10−6 m2, and the Young modulus of 200×109
N/m2. Find the tensile stress on the wire and the increase in its length.
35. A steel wire of length 6 m and diameter 0.6 mm is extended by a force of 60 N. The wire extends by 3
mm. Calculate:

a) The applied stress. b) The strain on the wire. c) The Young Modulus of the steel.

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

37. If stress were sufficiently small, what would be the relationship between stress and strain?

38. Write the parameters that elastic modulus depends on.

39. From the types of modulus, which one is applicable both for solids and fluids?

40. State the Equation of Continuity?

41. From the Continuity Equation and Bernoulli’s Equation, which expresses the conservation of mass
for an incompressible fluid flowing in a tube?