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This document contains 12 multiple choice questions about hydraulic engineering topics such as compressibility, equivalent head, streamline equations, continuity equation, Bernoulli's equation, and more. For each question there is a detailed solution explaining the concept and working.

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NPTEL Online Certification Courses

Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur

Hydraulic Engineering
Assignment- Week 2
Number of questions: 12 Total mark: 12 X 1 = 12

QUESTION 1:
Compressibility is the reciprocal of
a. bulk modulus of elasticity
b. shear modulus of elasticity
c. Young’s modulus of elasticity
d. any of the above.

Correct Answer: a. bulk modulus of elasticity


Detailed Solution: The reciprocal of the Bulk modulus of the material of a body is called the
compressibility of that material.

QUESTION 2:

Find equivalent head of Mercury(S= 13.6) for a 10m head of water.


a. 0.264 m
b. 0.354 m
c. 0.516 m
d. 0.735 m

Correct Answer: d. 0.735 m

Detailed Solution:

Heights of columns of Different liquids which produces the same pressure are called Equivalent
Columns.
P   w hw   Hg hHg
  h 10
hHg   w   hw  w   0.735m
 S Hg 13.6
 Hg 
QUESTION 3:

The paper pulp is an example of


a. Pseudo plastic fluid
b. Newtonian fluid
c. Thixotropic
d. Elastic solid

Correct Answer: a. Pseudo plastic fluid

Detailed Solution: Pseudo plastic fluid are also called shear thinning fluid .Examples are paints
,polymer solution , blood , paper pulp , syrup, molasses , milk

QUESTION 4:
A water tank contains 3 m deep water. The pressure exerted by the water per metre length of
the tank is
a. 28.29 kN
b. 19.28 kN
c. 44.14 kN
d. 42.26 kN

Correct Answer: c. 44.14 kN

Detailed Solution: The pressure force exerted by water per unit length is given by;
P = ρgh̅ × Area = ρgh̅ × (h × l)
𝜔 ℎ2
P= [∵ h̅ = h/2]
2

where, ω = Specific weight = ρg, ρ = density of water, h = depth of water tank.

Given: h = 1.5 m, g = 9.8 m/s2, ρ = 1000 kg/m3


𝜔 ℎ2 1000 𝑋 9.81 𝑋 32
P= = = 44145 N = 44.14 kN
2 2

QUESTION 5:
The equation of the streamline, passing through the origin, in a flow field
u= cosα, v = sinα for a constant α is determined as
a. y= x3

b. y= xcot2α

c. y= x tanα

d. y= α sinx

Correct Answer: c. y= x tanα

Detailed Solution: streamline equation


𝝏𝒙 𝝏𝒚
=
𝒖 𝒗
𝝏𝒙 𝝏𝒚
= sinα
𝒄𝒐𝒔α

Integrating both sides,


x sinα = y cosα + c
At x=0, y= 0 c=0
x sinα = y cosα
y= x tanα

QUESTION 6:
A uniform body 6 m long, 4 m wide and 2 m deep floats in water. If the depth of immersion is
0.6 m, then the weight of the body is
a. 331.53 kN
b. 233.5 kN
c. 141.264 kN
d. 37.53 kN

Correct Answer: c. 141.264 kN


Detailed Solution:
Volume of uniform body = 6x4x2 = 48m3.
Volume of water displaced = Weight of body in kN/specific weight of water in kN/m3.
V = W/9.81 ………….(1)
We also know that,
Depth of immersion = Volume/Cross sectional area.
0.6 = V/(6x4)
V= 24 x 0.6= 14.4

Putting the value of V in eq (1) we get.


W = 14.4 x 9.81= 141.264 kN.

QUESTION 7:
A two dimensional flow field is represented by φ= 2xy – x. Determine the value of velocity V at
the point (3, 2).
a. 1
b. 4
c. 4.12
d. 6.7

Correct Answer: d. 6.7

Detailed Solution: φ= 2xy – x


𝜕φ
u= = 2y – 1
𝜕𝑥
𝜕φ
v = 𝜕𝑦 = 2x

At point (2, 2):


u = 2y – 1 = (2 X 2) – 1 = 3 unit
v = 2x = (3 X 2) = 6 units

Velocity V = √𝑢2 + 𝑣 2 =√32 + 62 = 6.7 units


QUESTION 8:
In steady flow of a compressible fluid through a pipe, the density, area and velocity at a
particular section are 3.5 kg/m3, 2 m2 and 3 m/s, respectively. At another section the density
and area are 2.5 kg/m3 and 1 m2 respectively. What is the velocity at the section?

a. 3.5 m/s
b. 8.4 m/s
c. 5 m/s
d. 5.5 m/s

Correct Answer: b. 8.4 m/s


Detailed Solution: From Continuity equation
𝝆𝟏𝑨𝟏 𝑽𝟏 = 𝝆𝟏𝑨𝟐 𝑽𝟐
= 3.5x 2x 3= 2.5 x 1 x V2
V2 = 8.4 m/sec

QUESTION 9:
An inert tracer is injected continuously from a point in an unsteady flow field . The locus of
location of all the tracer particles at an instance of time represents

a. Stream line
b. Path line
c. Streak line
d. potential line

Correct Answer: c. Streak line

Detailed Solution: Locus of all fluid particles passing through a fixed point at a particular instant is
called streak line.

QUESTION 10:
A streamline is a line
a. which is normal to the velocity vector at every point
b. which represents lines of constant velocity potential
c. which is normal to the lines of constant stream function
d. which is tangential to the velocity vector everywhere at a given instant

Correct Answer: d. which is tangential to the velocity vector everywhere at a given instant

Detailed Solution: Streamline is an imaginary line or series of imaginary lines in a flow field, such
that a tangent to this line at any point at any instant represents the direction of the instantaneous
velocity vector at that point. There is no flow across streamlines.

QUESTION 11:
The depth of center of pressure for a triangular lamina of height h and base b immersed vertically
in water with its base at the free surface
ℎ
a.
2
3
b. ℎ
2
2ℎ
c.
3
d. ℎ
ℎ
Correct Answer: a. 2

𝒉 𝒃h3 𝟏 𝒉 𝒉
Detailed Solution: hp=hc+IG/Ahc = 𝟑 + / 𝟐bh×𝟑 = 𝟐
𝟑𝟔

QUESTION 12:
For a perfect incompressible liquid, flowing in a continuous stream, the total energy of a particle
remains the same, while the particle moves from one point to another. This statement is called
a. Continuity equation
b. Bernoulli’s Equation
c. Pascal’s law
d. Archimedes’ principle
Correct Answer: b. Bernoulli’s Equation

Detailed Solution: For a perfect incompressible liquid, flowing in a continuous stream, the total
energy of a particle remains the same, while the particle moves from one point to another. This
statement is called Bernoulli’s Equation.

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