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Example Problems

This document contains 9 example problems and their solutions related to fluid mechanics concepts like pressure, viscosity, density, and surface tension. The problems involve calculating things like the height of a mercury barometer, the volume of a cork, pressure drops in pipes, forces on plates from fluid jets, centerline velocities in pipes, pressures at oil-water interfaces, and forces required to lift wires and rings from water surfaces using given physical properties and measurements.

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Example Problems

This document contains 9 example problems and their solutions related to fluid mechanics concepts like pressure, viscosity, density, and surface tension. The problems involve calculating things like the height of a mercury barometer, the volume of a cork, pressure drops in pipes, forces on plates from fluid jets, centerline velocities in pipes, pressures at oil-water interfaces, and forces required to lift wires and rings from water surfaces using given physical properties and measurements.

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Example Problems

1. How high does mercury barometer stands on a day when atmospheric pressure is 98.6 kPa
considering that the specific gravity of mercury is 13.6.

Solution:

Thus,

2. A piece of cork has a specific gravity of 0.25 and weighs 4 lb in air. If the weight density of
water is 62.4 lb/f3. Compute the volume of the cork.

Solution:

Thus,
3. Water at 20 C is flowing in a pipe of radius 1.0 cm. The viscosity of water at 20 C is 1.005
centipoise. If the flow speed at the center is 0.200 m/s and the flow is laminar, find the pressure
drop due to viscosity along a 5 m section pipe.

Solution:

4. The jet discharges water at the rate of 0.10 m2/s and at a speed of 18 m/s to stationary plate.
Determine the force on the plate.

Solution:

Thus,
5. An oil flowing at the rate of 0.001 m/s through an 8 cm diameter pipe has a kinematic
viscosity of

2 x 10-5 m2/s and a specific gravity of 0.85. What is the centerline velocity?

Solution:

Solving for the type of flow:

Re = 795.77 < 2000; then; the flow is laminar and the center line velocity must be twice the
average velocity.

Thus, the centerline velocity:

6. A barrel contains a 0.150 layer of oil floating on water that is 0.30 mm deep. If the density of
the oil is 600 kg/m3, what is the pressure (gage) at the oil water interface?

Solution:
Thus,

7. What force is required to lif a thin wire 20 cm long? Use surface tension of water equal to
0.0728 N/m and neglect the weight of the wire.

Solution:

8. What force is required to lif a wire ring 30 cm in diameter if the mass of the ring is 1.5 kg and
surface tension of the water is 0.076 N/m?

Solution:

Where:

So:
9. What is the density of water having specific weight of 22.13 kN/m 3?

Solution:

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