it easier to vim in sea water ?

(C) Density of fluid

1. Why (D) None of the above.
pressure is highest at the level.
,A) Atniospheric sea
9. A ball is floating in a beaker placed in a lift. Half of
water contains salt
Sea
B) its volume is outside water. The lift starts rising up
Density of sea water is higher than the ordinary
with acceleration equal to g/2. What fraction of the ball
water
will now be outside the water surface ?
Because of some reason other than those mentioned
above.
(A) (B)
of the unit earlier used for expressing pressure was 4 3

called bar. I bar is equivalentto

(A) 10 Pa (B) 10 Pa (C) (D)
C)I00 Pa (D) 10 Pa 10. A wooden block is floating in a trough of water. If the
meant by the statement "pressure of gas is trough falls freely, the upward thrust on the wooden
What IS
3. block will be
6 cm of Hg" ?
13
(A) same as before
A) Density of mercury is 13.6 8 cm3
(B) more than earlier
B)Pressure is equivalent to that of 13.6 cm mercury
column (C) zero
(D) equal to the weight of the block in air.
C At sea level mercury barometer reads 13-6 cm
11. A cork ball is floating on the surface of water in a
D)Pressure is equal to 13-6 atmospheres.
beaker. The beaker is covered with a jar and then air is
Two vessels have different base area. They are filled with evacuated. What will happen to the ball ?
water to the same height. If the amount of water in one be
(A) Sink a little (B) Rise a little
4 times that in the other, then the ratio of pressure on their
bottom will be C) Remain unchanged D) Sink completely
12. With which one of the following will the hydrogen
(A) 16: 1 B) 8:1
balloon rise faster ?
(C) 4:1 (D) 1:1
(A) 5 kg of sand (B) 5 kg of water
5. The height of water at two identical dams is the same,
(C) 5 kg of wool (D) 5 kg of wood
but dam A holds back a lake containing 2 cubic kilometres
of water while dam B holds back a lake containing 13. Density of ice is pand that of water is o. What will be the
I cubic kilometre of water. The ratio of the total force decrease in volume when a mass M of ice melts ?
exerted on dam A to that exerted on dam B is M
2 (B) 1 (A) P (B) M
C) 1/2 D) 4.
6, The super fluid is a fluid with zero C)M (D) o
(A) viscosity (B) surface tension
C) density 14. A ball of density pis gently released in a liquid of density
(D) buoyancy o

1 A floating body will be in stable equilibrium, when its where p> o. What will be the acceleration of free fall ofthe
centre of buoyancy lies ball in the liquid?
(A) vertically above the centre of gravity (A) 8 (B) (p- o) 8
(B) vertically below the centre of gravity (C) (p- o 8lp (D) P/p- 8)
(C) along the same horizontal line as the centre of 15. A person is carrying a bucket in one hand and a fish in the

gravity other. If he puts fish in the bucket, how will the load carried
(D) the by the person change?
at same point at the centre of gravity.
8. Which of the following determines the (A) No change
upthrust on a
body immersed in a fluid ? (B) It will be more
(A) Depth below the surface (C) It will be less

(B) Density of the body (D) It will depend on the mass of the fish.
 l6, A hind is restiny on the floor of an air tight box suspended (C) I decreusen atmonpheric pressure
from a spring balance. If the bird slarts flying. how will (D) I provides required lift to he aeroplane
the readin ol spring balance change ?
24. A jet plane flies in air because
(A) l will remain unchanged (A) upthrust of air balances the weight
(8) It will be less than earlier
(B) weight of the air displaced is cqual to the
C)It will be more than earlier the aeroplane weight of

(D) It cannot be predicted. (C) gravity does not act on the aeroplane
17. Which will be the casier to lit ? (D) of some reason other than those
mentioned abue
(A) 10 kg of iron 25. Which of the following is the
graph between the
(B) 10 kg of losely packed feathers and the velocity of a ime
body moving in a viscous fluid 7
(C) 10 kg of water
(D) There will be difference in either case
no

18. A body is just floating on the surface of a liquid. The

density of the body is same as that of he liquid. The (A) (B)
body is slightly pushed down. What will happen to the
body ?
(A) II will slowly come back to its earlier position
(B) It will remain submerged, where it is left
C) It will sink
(D) It will come out violently.
19. A disc of area 4 is placed at the bottom of a water C) (D)
tank. The pressure of water column on it is p. If another
disc of area 24 is placed at the bottom, of the same
water tank, the pressure on it will be 26. A of volume 120 cm° floats completely immersed
body
in beaker of water. If the mass of the beaker and the
a
(A) p/2 (B) P water before the immersion of the body,be 180
C) 2 g. What
(D) 4p will be the mass of the beaker after the body is
20.
placed
Why the dam of water reservoir is thick at the bottom ? in it ?
(A) Quantity of water increases with depth (A) 60 g (B) 120g
(B) Density of water increases with depth (C) 180 g (D) 300 g
C) Pressure of water increases with 27. A cube of each side L floats in a
depth liquid of density
(D) Because of some reason other than those 3 times the density of cube. What
mentioned length of cube will be
above. outside the liquid ?
21. If we blow air (A) L/3 (B) 2L/3
through a hole at the top of a closed tube
containing liquid, he pressure increases (C) 2L/5 (D) L/5
(A) in all directions 28. A fine hole is made at the bottom of a
cylinder height
50 cm. What is the maximum speed with which water
(B) only in downward direction
can flow out of the hole ?
(C) only on the sides
(A) V10 ms-l (B) 10 m s
(D) neither downwards nor on the sides.
22. Sudden fall of pressure (C) Imsl (D) 05 ms-l
at a place indicates
29.
(A) storm (B) rain Water rises in a capillary tube through a height h. If
the tube is inclined to the surface at 45°, the
liquid
(C) fair weather (D) cold wave. liquid will rise in the tube upto its length equal to
23. Why the aeroplanes are made to run on the runway h
before take off ?
(A) 2 (B) h
(A) It decreases friction
(B) It decreases viscous drag of the air (C)2h (D) 2h.
 calids A and B float in water. It is observed that A (A) 70 em (B) 140 cm
s0
Two
with half its volume immersed and B floats with
tloats (C) 280 cm (D) None of the above.
23 of
its volume
immersed Compare the densities of 38. A body floats in a water on the earth with 90% inside
A and B.
the water. What fraction of the body will be inside the
(A) 4 : 3
(B) 2:3
(D) 1:3 water on Jupiter ?
(C)3:4

tank contains water top of mercury. A cube of iron of

on (A) 90% B) 80%
. A
side 6 cm is placed pright in equilibrium. It is partly in (C) 70% (D) 60%
mercury and rest inwater. The densities of mercury and
39. In the above question, if the vessel containing water
iron are 13 6 g cm and 7-7g cm respectively. What falls freely, what fraction of the body will be inside
is under mercury ?
length of the cube water ?
(A) 32 cm (B) 1-6 cm
(A) 90% (B) 80%
(C) 0-8 cm (D) 0-4 cm
(C) 70% (D) 60%
. A piece of cork of mass 4 kg floats in water with 40%
of its volume under water. What is the specific gravity 40. Area of cross-section of the press-plunger of a Bramah
of the cork? press is 2 cm* and that of pump plunger is 0-02 em. If
we apply a downward force of 10 N on the
(A) 0-8 B) 06 pump plunger,
the load that can be lifted is given by
C) 04 (D) 02
:. The volume of an air bubble is doubled as it rises from (A) 10 N (B) 100 N
the bottom of a lake to îts surface. The atmospheric (C) 1000N (D) 10000 N
pressure is 75 cm of mercury and the ratio of the 41. A wooden cube first floats inside water when a 200 g
density of mercury to that of lake water is 40/3, the mass is placed on it. When the mass is removed the
depth of the lake is cube is 2 cm above water level. The size of cube is
A) 5 m (B) 10 m (A) 5 cm (B) 10 cm
(C) 30 m (D) 50 m. (C) 15 cm (D) 20 cm.
34. A vessel contains oil (density 0-8 g cm3) over mercury 42. A wooden cube floats in water with 2 cm of it above
(density 13-6 g cm-*). A homogeneous sphere floats with
half of its volume immersed in mercury and the other the water level. When a 200 g mass is placed on the
cube, it just submerges in water. The length of each
half in oil. The density of material of the sphere in side of the cube is
cm is
(A) 6 cm (B) 8 cm
(A) 72 B) 12:8
(C) 10 cm (D) 12 cm.
(C) 144 (D) None of the above.
43. A small cylinder of 2 cm diameter is connected to a
5. A wooden block of volume 1000 cm* is suspended from
large cylinder of 20 cm diameter and each cylinder is
a spring balance. It
weighs 12 N in air. It is suspended fitted with suitable pistons. An incompressible fluid is
in water such that half of the block is below the surface
filled in the cylinder. If a force of 60 N is
of water. The reading of the spring balance is applied to
the piston of the small cylinder, then the force exerted
(A) 10 N B) 9N on the piston of the large cylinder will be
C) 8 N (D) 5 N. (A) 12,000N (B) 6,000 N
36. A body floats in water with one fourth of its volume
C) 1,200 N (D) 600 N.
above the surface of water. If placed in oil it floats
with one third of its volume above the surface of oil. 44. Which of the following works "Pascal's Law"?
on

The density of oil is (A) Aneroid barometer (B) Hydraulic life

3
(C) Venturimeter (D) Sprayer.
(A) (B) 4 45. If T is the Surface Tension of soap solution, the amount
of work done in increasing the radius of a
4 9 from r to 2r is soap bubble
C) D) (A) 24 nPT (B) 6TT
. What is the barometric height of a liquid of density
(C) 121T (D) 8TT
3-4 g cm at a place where that for mercury barometer
(E) 3TT.
is 70 cm?
 The pressure at the bottom of tank containing
does not depend on
a
liquid
(A) (B)
(A) acceleration due to gravity 2
(B) height of the liquid column
a
(C) area of the bottom surface C) (D)
(D) density of the liquid
(E) nature of the liquid. E)
47. The radius of bubble at a depth H in a lake doubles on
a
a
54. A bird of mass 1-23 kg is able to hover by imparting a
coming up the lake. What can be concluded about H?
dowaward velocity 10 m/s uniformly to air of density
(A) Pressure due to H depth of water is equal to p kg/m?
over an effective area 0-1 m*. If the
atmospheric pressure acceleration due to
gravity is 10 m/s, then the magnitude of pkg/m is
(B) Pressure due to H depth of water is equal to seven
times the atmospheric pressure (A) 0-0123 (B) 0 123
(C) None of the above two C) 123 (D) 1-32.
(D) Any of the above. 55. The application of pressure on different points is equal.
48. A cylinder of height 20 m is completely filled with This law is
water. The velocity of efflux of water (in m s-l) (A) Pascal's (B) Archimedes
through
a small hole on the side
wall of the cylinder near its C)Newton's (D) Einstein's
bottom is
56. An ice-cube of density 900 kg/m° is floating in water
(A) 10 (B) 20 of
(C) 25-5
density 1000 kg/m*. The percentage of volume of ice
(D) 5. cube outside the water is
49. A hole is made in the bottom of tank
having water. If (A) 20% (B) 35%
total pressure at bottom is 3 atm (1 atm
10 Nm
then the velocity of water flowing from hole is
=

(C) 10% (D) 25%.

57. The rate of flow of a liquid through an orifice of a tank
(A) 400 ms-! (B) 600ms does not depend
upon
C) 60 ms (D) None of these. (A) the size of orifice
50. A large cylindrical tank has a hole of area A at its
B) density of liquid
bottom. Water is poured in the tank by a tube of C) the height of fluid column
equal
cross-sectional area A ejecting water at the speed V. (D) acceleration due
Which one of the following situation will be realised?
to gravity.
58. Hydraulic press is based on
(A) No water will stay in the tank
(A) Archimedes principle
(B) The water level will keep on rising
B) Bernoulli's equation
(C) The water level will rise to a height u/2g and then stop
(C) Pascal's law
(D) The water level will oscillate with mean height u-lg.
(D) Reynold's law.
51. With increase in temperature, the
viscosity of 59. If there were no gravity, which of the will not
(A) gas decreases and liquid increases be there for a fluid ?
following
(B) gas increases and liquid decreases
(A) Viscosity
(C) both gas and liquid increase
(B) Surface tension
(D) both gas and liquid decrease.
(C) Pressure
52. Two drops of water make a big
drop. In this process (D) Archimede's upward thrust.
(A) energy will be released
60. An ice cube is floating in water contained in a
(B) energy will be absorbed beaker.
When the ice melts, what will happen to the level of
C) neither (A) nor (B) water in the beaker?
(D) some mass change into energy. (A) It will rise
(B) It will fall
53. Two metal spheres of radi aj and a2 are falling freely
(C) It will remain unchanged
in a viscous medium. The terminal velocities of the two
spheres are in the ratio D) First it will fall and then rise to the same levels
before.
 4 glass ball, The cube is floatinu (A) 700 cm (B) 600 cm3
A ice culbe conlnins contained in a trough. Whu
Nturlco ol waler
C) 500 cm (D) 400 cm.
l te
lo the Water level, when the cubc molts ? 120 kg floats
will a p c n 69. A raft of wood (density 600 kg/m') of mass
be the rafi to
I wilI be unchanged
on
(A) in water. How much weight can put
() Iwll fall make it just sink ?
C)Iwill rivc (A) 120 kg (B) 200 kg
il will lall and then rise. (D) 80 kg.
D) First (C) 40 kg
A bat carrying
stccl lloating
ball is on the surface of 70. A body of volume 100 is immersed completely in
cc.
h2.
lank. If the balls are thrown into the tank
ter in a water jar.
contained in aThe weight of water and jar
one, how
will it affeCI the levcl of water ? immersion
onc by before immersion of the body was 700g. After
remain unchanged1
(A) It will weight of water and jar will be
will rise (B) 700 g
(1) I (A) 500 g
C)Iwill fall (C) 100 g (D) 800 g
will rise and then fall.
(D) First it 71. The density of ice is 0-9 g cm3. What percentage by
balloon and the cquipment to be carried water ?
The nass of the volume of the block of ice floats out side the
It is filled with helium of density
with it is 1650 kg. (A) 10% (B) 45%
volume of the balloon is 1500 m. A
02 kg/m', The (C) 75% (D) 90%.
to the balloon and it is allowed to rise.
rope is tied in sea water. The density of ice
tension in the rope, if the density of 72. An iceberg is floating
What will be the of sea water is 1-03 g
cm3.
balloon is 1:3 kg/m3? is 0.92 g cm and that
the air surrounding the What percentage of the iceberg will be
beclow the surface
(A) 1500 kgf (B) 1650 kgf
of water ?
C) 1950 kgf (D) None of the above (B) 11%
The (A) 3%
64. The time period of a simple pendulum is T. (D) 92%
a. The bob is put in water (C) 89%
relative density of the bob is floats in it completely
oscillate. Assuming there is no friction 73. A body when placed in water,
and allowed to of the body is 100 cm*. It is
what will be the time period of immersed. The volume
due to viscosity etc., of the jar and water is 400 g.
placed in jar. The mass
the pendulum ? the total mass will be
(B) T(o - 1)/2 After placing the body in it,
(A) T(a - 1) (B) 400 g
(A) 250 g
T (C) 450 g (D) 500 g.
T
(D) inside the water, when a
(C) a- (a 1) -

74. A wooden cube floats just

on it. If the mass
is removed,
mass of 300 g is placed
with water upto a height H, the water surface. The
cylinder of radius R is filledwalls is equal
above
the cube floats with 3
cm
65. A to that on
that the thrust on the of the side of cube is
so
R ? length
relation between H and (B) 15 cm
bottom. What is the (A) 10 cm
(A) H R/2
(B) H R (C) 20 cmm
(D) 30 cm
attached
R (D) H = 2R 75. A wooden block
of mass 8 kg is tied to a string inside
(C) H/2 =

a tank. The block is completely

2, floats completely to the bottom of
%. A hollow sphere of relative density If the volume of the the water. Relative density
of wood is 0 8. Taking
the surface of water. the tension in the string ?
immersed on
volume of cavity
will be g 10 m/s*, what is
sphere be V. Then the (A) 40 N
(B) 50 N
(B) V/3 (D) 100 N
(A) V/2 (C) 80 N
(D) V/8. water in it. If it is
C) VI4 has 100 g of
surface of lake is 76. A balloon
of mass
g will weigh
on the immersed in water, it
07, The thickness of the ice layer What is the completely
in the ice layer. (B) 1-0 g
20 m. A hole is made take a bucket' (A) 0:5 g
required to
minimum length of the rope (D) 101 g
? (C) 2-0g
full of water out r rises from the bottom of a
bubble of radiuS
(B) 9 m 77. An air it reaches the surface, its radius
(A) 18 m of depth H. When
tube
(D) 2 m What 1s tne atmospheric pressure in terms
(C) 5 m becomes 3r.
bottom of a lake water column ?
lying at the of the height of
68. An inverted vessel (bell) of air trapped
in it. The bell (B) H/4
47-6 m deep, has 100 cm volume of the (A) H/2
lake. The
the surface of the is (D) H/16
Is brought to
(Atmospheric
pressure (C) H/8
will n o w be
trapped air of Hg 136 g cm°) =

70 cm of Hg : density