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Exercise - III (SUBJECTIVE PROBLEMS)

1. STATIC FLUID 3. PASCAL'S LAW & ARCHIMEDE'S PRINCIPLE
1. A piston of mass M = 3 kg and radius R = 4 cm has 7. A solid ball of density half that of water falls freely
a hole into which a thin pipe of radius r = 1 cm is under gravity from a height of 19.6 m and then enter
inserted. The piston can enter a cylinder tightly and water. Upto what depth will the ball go ? How much
without friction, and initially it is at the bottom of the time will it take to come again to the water surface ?
cylinder. 750 gm of water is now poured into the pipe Neglect air resistance & velocity effects in water.
so that the piston & pipe are lifted up as shown. Find 8. Place a glass beaker, partially filled with water, in a
the height H of water in the cylinder and height h of sink. The beaker has a mass 390 gm and an interior
water in the pipe. (Neglect width of piston) volume of 500 cm3. You now start to fill the sink with
water and you find, by experiment, that if the beaker
is less than half full, it will float; but if it is more than
h half full, it remains on the bottom of the sink as the
water rises to its rim. What is the density of the material
of which the beaker is made?

H
9. Two spherical balls A and B made up of same material
having masses 2m and m are released from rest. Ball B
lies at a distance h below the water surface while A is
at a height of 2h above water surface in the same
2. Compute the work which must be performed to slowly vertical line at the instant they are released.
pump the water out of a hemispherical reservoir of (a) Obtain the position where they collide.
radius R = 0.6 m. (b) If the bodies stick together due to collision, to
what maximum height above water surface does the
3. A vertical uniform U tube open at both ends contains
combined mass rise?
mercury. Water is poured in one limb until the level of Specific gravity of the material of the balls is 2/3.
mercury is depressed 2cm in that limb. What is the Neglect viscosity and loss due to splash.
length of water column when this happens.
10. For the system shown in the figure, the cylinder
2. ACCELERATED FLUID on the left at L has a mass of 600kg and a cross
4. A spherical tank of 1.2m radius is half filled with oil sectional area of 800 cm2. The piston on the right, at
of relative density 0.8. If the tank is given a horizontal S, has cross sectional area 25cm2 and negligible weight.
acceleration of 10 m/s2. Calculate the inclination of If the apparatus is filled with oil. ( = 0.75 gm/cm3)
the oil surface to horizontal and maximum pressure on Find the force F required to hold the system in
equilibrium.
the tank.
F
s
5. An open cubical tank completely filled with water is
kept on a horizontal surface. Its acceleration is then 8m
slowly increased to 2m/s2 as shown in the fig. The L
600kg
side of the tank is 1m. Find the mass of water that
would spill out of the tank.

11. A test tube of thin walls floats vertically in water,

1m 2m/s
2
sinking by a length l0 = 10 cm. A liquid of density less
than that of water, is poured into the tube till the
levels inside and outside the tube are even. If the
1m tube now sinks to a length l0 = 40 cm, the specific
gravity of the liquid is ______.
6. Find the speed of rotation of 1 m diameter tank,
initially full of water such that water surface makes 12. In air an object weighs 15N, when immersed
an angle of 45° with the horizontal at a radius of 30 completely in water the same object weighs 12N. When
cm. What is the slope of the surface at the wall of immersed in another liquid completely, it weighs 13N.
the tank. Find
(a) the specific gravity of the object and
(b) the specific gravity of the other liquid.

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17. A siphon has a

13. Block A in figure hangs by
D uniform circular base of
a cord from spring balance D
1.8m A
and is submerged in a liquid C diameter 8 /  cm with
contained in a beaker B. The B its crest A 1.8 m above
mass of the beaker is 1kg & A 3.6m
water level as in
the mass of the liquid is 1.5 C figure.
kg. The balance D reads 2.5
kg & balance E reads 7.5 kg. E Find
The volume of block A is 0.003 m3. (a) velocity of flow
(i) What is the density of block & the liquid. (b) discharge rate of the flow in m3/sec.
(ii) What will each balance read if block is pulled out (c) absolute pressure at the crest level A.
of the liquid. [Use P0 = 105 N/m2 & g = 10 m/s2]
14. A solid cube, with faces either vertical or horizontal, 18. A large tank is filled with two liquids of specific
is floating in a liquid of density 6 g/cc. It has two third gravities 2 and . Two holes are made on the wall of
of its volume submerged. If enough water is added the tank as shown. Find the ratio of the distances
from the top so as to completely cover the cube, from O of the points on the ground where the jets
what fraction of its volume will remain immersed in the from holes A & B strike.
liquid?
h/4 A
15. A uniform cylindrical block of length l density d1 h/2 
and area of cross section A floats in a liquid of desity
A
d2 contained in a vessel (d2>d1). The bottom of the h/2 2
h/4
cylinder just rests on a spring of constant k. The O
other end of the spring is fixed to the bottom of the
vessel. The weight that may be placed on top of the 19. Calculate the rate of flow of glycerine of density
cylinder such that the cylinder is just submerged in 1.25 × 103 kg/m3 through the conical section of a
the liquid is ____ pipe if the radii of its ends are 0.1 m & 0.04 m and the
A pressure drop across its length is 10 N/m2
l 20. The tank in fig discharges water at constant
d1
rate for all water levels above the air inlet R. The
height above datum to which water would rise in the
manometer tubes M and N respectively are _________
& ___________ .
4. FLUID FLOW & BERNOULLI'S PRINCIPLE
16. Two very large open tanks A and F both contain Open to atmosphere

the same liquid. A horizontal pipe BCD, having a M

N
constriction at C leads out of the bottom of tank A, 40cm
20cm R
and a vertical pipe E opens into the constriction at C
Datum
and dips into the liquid in tank F. Assume streamline
flow and no viscosity. If the cross section at C is one
half that at D and if D is at a distance h1 below the
level of liquid in A, to what height h2 (in terms of h1)
will liquid rise in pipe E ? (above G & upto C there is
air in the pipe)

h1
A B C D

G
h2 E

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