FINALS PLATE

GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS

1. Answer the following problems with complete solution.

2. Box your final answers. Round off your final answers in 3 decimal places.
3. Erasures on the solution and final answer will be considered void.
4. Use the given format in supplementary problems.
5. Anybody caught cheating will be marked zero.

SITUATION 1:
An open tank contains 5.7 m of water covered with 2.8 m of kerosene having a unit weight of
8 kN/m3 . If the diameter of the tank is 1m.

a. Find the pressure at the interface of water and kerosene.

b. Find the pressure at the bottom of the tank.
c. Find the total force at the bottom of the tank.

SITUATION 2:
A closed compartment shown contains water 3 m deep at the left side and 5 m deep on the
right side. If the pressure at point A is 98 kPa absolute on the closed compartment shown

a. What is the absolute pressure at point B considering specific weight of air.

 b. What is the absolute pressure at point B if neglecting the specific weight of air.
c. Percentage error results from neglecting specific weight of air.

SITUATION 3:
A vertical rectangular gate 1.2 m wide and 1.8 m high is hinged at the top and has a water on
one side. What force applied at the bottom of the gate at an angle of 45° with the vertical is
required to open the gate when the water surface is:
a. At the top of the gate
b. At 0.90m above the top of the gate
c. At 0.90m below the top of the gate

SITUATION 4:
Parabolic gate AB is 7m perpendicular to the paper. Neglecting atmospheric pressure.
a. Compute the horizontal component of the hydrostatic force acting on AB.
b. Compute the vertical component of the hydrostatic force acting on AB.
c. Compute the force F required to prevent rotation about the hinged AB.
SITUATION 5:
A concrete dam of trapezoidal cross section, with one face vertical has a thickness of 0.60 m
at the top and 4.2 m at the bottom. It is 7 m high and has a horizontal base. The vertical face
is subjected to a water pressure , the water standing 6 m above the base. The weight of
concrete is 24 kN/m3 per meter length of dam.
a. The total hydrostatic force on the dam in kN.
b. The resisting moment of the dam to overturning in kNm
c. Factor of safety against overturning.

SITUATION 6:
A masonry dam of trapezoidal cross-section has a height of 22m with one face vertical and a
thickness of 2m at the top and 10 m at the bottom. The inclined face is subjected water
pressure, the water standing to a depth of 15m above the base. The specific gravity of masonry
is 2.4. Assuming no hydrostatic uplift.
a. Find the total hydrostatic force acting perpendicular to the inclined surface.
b. Determine where will the resulting pressure intersect the base measuring from the toe.
c. Determine the intensity of pressure at the toe.

SITUATION 7:
A circular log having a diameter of 8 ft has a length of 15 ft. It has a specific gravity of 0.425.
a. Determine the weight of the log.
b. Determine the depth will the log sink in fresh water.
c. Determine the load must be applied in order to fully submerged the log.

SITUATION 8:
An iceberg in the ocean floats with one-seventh of its volume above the surface. Unit weight
of ocean water is 64 pcf.
a. What is the specific gravity relative to pure water?
b. What portion of its volume would be above the surface of ice were floating in pure
water?

SITUATION 9:
A balloon is filled with 3000 m3 of hydrogen having a specific weight of 1.1 N/m3.
a. What lift does the balloon exert at the earth surface if the balloon weighs 1400 N and
unit weight of air is 12.01 N/m3.
b. What lift does the balloon exert at an elevation of 10 km, assuming that the volume
has increased 6%? unit weight of air is 4.04 N/m3.
c. What lift does the balloon exert at an elevation of 20 km, assuming that the volume
has increased 10%? unit weight of air is 2.02 N/m3.

SITUATION 10:
A wooden barge of rectangular cross section is 8 m wide , 3.6 m high and 14 m long. It is
transporting in seawater (specific gravity = 1.03), a total load of 1300 kN including its own weight
and cargo. If a weight of 80 kN included in the 1300 kN above mentioned is shifter a horizontal
distance of 2.4 m to one side, it will cause the barge to go down by 0.4 m in the corresponding
wedge of immersion. The barge floats vertically (on an even keel), before the shifting of the
weight. Compute how far above the water line is the center of gravity of the loaded barge.

SITUATION 11:
A cylindrical tank having a diameter of 40 cm and 20 cm height floats in mercury in a vertical
position, its depth of immersion being 8 cm.
a. Determine the value of MBo
b. Determine the metacentric height
c. If water is now poured into the vessel over the mercury until the cylinder is submerged
(partly in mercury and partly in water) determine the depth of immersion in mercury.

SITUATION 12:
For a ship with a waterline cross section as shown has a displacement at 5350 kN.
a. Determine the metacentric height to remain in stable equilibrium.
b. Determine the maximum distance that the center of gravity may lie above the center
of buoyancy if the ship is to remain stable.
c. Determine the horizontal displacement of the center of buoyancy if the ship tilts an
angle of 10° without overturning.
SITUATION 13:
A right circular container 2m in diameter and 4 m high is 1/2 full of water. When rotated about
its vertical axis at the rate of 5 radians per second.
a. By how many meters will the water surface drop at the center of the vessel?
b. What is the pressure in kPa at the base of the container along the perimeter?
c. What is the volume of paraboloid formed by the rotation of the vessel?

SITUATION 14:
An open tank 3m by 3m in horizontal section weighs 3.6 kN and contains water to a depth 1m.
It is acted by an unbalanced force of 16 kN parallel to a pair of sides.
a. Determine the acceleration of the tank.
b. What must be height of the tank so that no water will spill out?
c. If the acceleration is increased by 4m/s2, how much water will be spilled out.

SITUATION 15:
An unbalanced vertical force OF 270 N upward accelerates a volume f 0.044 m 3 of water. If the
water is 0.9 m deep in a cylindrical tank.
a. What is the acceleration of the tank?
b. What is the pressure at the bottom of the tank in N/m 2?
c. What is the force acting on the bottom of the tank in N?