Mark Emmanuelle B. Bautista Engr.

Angelo Villamin

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6.1 What is the specific weight of a liquid, if the pressure is 4.7 psi at a depth of 17 ft?

6.2 What is the depth of a liquid, if the pressure is 127 kPa and the liquid density is 1.2 g/cm3 ?

6.3 What is the displaced volume in cubic meters if the buoyancy on an object is 15 lb and the
density of the liquid is 785 kg/m3 ?
6.4 What is the liquid density in gram per cubic centimeter, if the buoyancy is 833 N on a 135
cm3 submerged object?

6.5 The weight of a body in air is17 lb and submerged in water is 3 lb. What is the volume and
specific weight of the body?
6.6 A material has a density of 1263 kg/m3 . A block of the material weighs 72 kg when
submerged in water. What is its volume and weight in air? Level 97

6.7 A container of 4.5-ft diameter is full of liquid. If the liquid has a specific weight of 63 lb/ft3 ,
what is the depth of the liquid if the weight of the container and liquid is 533 lb? Assume the
container weighs 52 lb.
6.8 The weight of liquid in a round container is 1578 kg, the depth of the liquid is 3.2 m. If the
density of the liquid is 0.83 g/cm3 , what is the diameter of the container?

6.9 A capacitive sensor is 3 ft 3 in high and has a capacitance of 25 pF in air and 283 pF when
immersed in a liquid to a depth of 2 ft 7 in. What is the dielectric constant of the liquid?
6.10 A capacitive sensor 2.4 m in height has a capacitance of 75 pF in air if the sensor is placed
in a liquid with a dielectric constant of 65 to a depth of 1.7 m. What will be the capacitive
reading of the sensor?

6.11 A pressure gauge at the bottom of a tank reads 32 kPa. If the tank has 3.2 m diameter,
what is the weight of liquid in the container?
6.12 What pounds per square inch is required by a bubbler system to produce bubbles at a
depth of 4 ft 7 in water?

6.13 A bubbler system requires a pressure of 28 kPa to produce bubbles in a liquid with a
density of 560 kg/m3 . What is the depth of the outlet of the bubbler in the liquid?

6.14 A displacer with a diameter of 4.7 cm is used to measure changes in the level of a liquid
with a density of 470 kg/m3 . What is the change in force on the sensor if the liquid level
changes 13.2 cm?
6.15 A displacer is used to measure changes in liquid level. The liquid has a density of 33 lb/ft3 .
What is the diameter of the dispenser if a change in liquid level of 45 in produces a change in
force on the sensor of 3.2 lb?
6.16 A bubbler system requires a pressure of 47 kPa to produce bubbles at a depth of 200 in.
What is the density of the liquid in pounds per cubic foot?

6.17 A capacitive sensing probe 2.7 m high has a capacitance of 157 pF in air and 7.4 nF when
partially immersed in a liquid with a dielectric constant of 79. How much of the probe is
immersed in the liquid?

6.18 A force sensor is immersed in a liquid with a density of 61 lb/ft3 to a depth of 42 in and
then placed in a second liquid with a density of 732 N/m3 . What is the change in force on the
sensor if the diameter of the sensor is 8 cm and the change in depth is 5.9 cm?
6.19 An ultrasonic transmitter and receiver are placed 10.5 ft above the surface of a liquid. How
long will the sound waves take to travel from the transmitter to the receiver? Assume the
velocity of sound waves is 340 m/s 6.20 If the liquid in Prob.
6.20 is lowered to 6.7 ft, what is the increase in time for the sound waves to go from the
transmitter to the receiver?

7.1 The flow rate in a 7-in diameter pipe is 3.2 ft3 /s. What is the average velocity in the pipe?
7.2 A 305 liter/min of water flows through a pipe, what is the diameter of the pipe if the
velocity of the water in the pipe is 7.3 m/s?

7.3 A pipe delivers 239 gal of water a minute. If the velocity of the water is 27 ft/s, what is the
diameter of the pipe?

7.4 What is the average velocity in a pipe, if the diameter of the pipe is 0.82 cm and the flow
rate is 90 cm3 /s?
7.5 Water flows in a pipe of 23-cm diameter with an average velocity of 0.73 m/s, the diameter
of the pipe is reduced, and the average velocity of the water increases to 1.66 m/s. What is the
diameter of the smaller pipe? What is the flow rate?
7.6 The velocity of oil in a supply line changes from 5.1 to 6.3 ft3 /s when going from a large
bore to a smaller bore pipe. If the bore of the smaller pipe is 8.1 in diameter, what is the bore of
the larger pipe?

7.7 Water in a 5.5-in diameter pipe has a velocity of 97 gal/s; the pipe splits in two to feed two
systems. If after splitting, one pipe is 3.2-in diameter and the other 1.8-in diameter, what is the
flow rate from each pipe?
7.8 What is the maximum allowable velocity of a liquid in a 3.2-in diameter pipe to ensure
laminar flow? Assume the kinematic viscosity of the liquid is 1.7 × 10−5 ft2 /s.

7.9 A copper sphere is dropped from a building 273 ft tall. What will be its velocity on impact
with the ground? Ignore air resistance.

7.10 Three hundred and eighty five gallons of water per minute is flowing through a 4.3-in
radius horizontal pipe. If the bore of the pipe is reduced to 2.7-in radius and the pressure in the
smaller pipe is 93 psig, what is the pressure in the larger section of the pipe? 116 Chapter Seven
7.11 Oil with a specific weight of 53 lb/ft3 is exiting from a pipe whose center line is 17 ft below
the surface of the oil. What is the velocity of the oil from the pipe if there is 1.5 ft head loss in
the exit pipe?
7.12 A pump in a fountain pumps 109 gal of water a second through a 6.23-in diameter vertical
pipe. How high will the water in the fountain go?

7.13 What is the head loss in a 7-in diameter pipe 118 ft long that has a friction factor of 0.027 if
the average velocity of the liquid flowing in the pipe is 17 ft/s?
7.14 What is the radius of a pipe, if the head loss is 1.6 ft when a liquid with a friction factor of
0.033 is flowing with an average velocity of 4.3 ft/s through 73 ft of pipe?

7.15 What is the pressure in a 9.7-in bore horizontal pipe, if the bore of the pipe narrows to 4.1
in downstream where the pressure is 65 psig and 28,200 gal of fluid per hour with a specific
gravity (SG) of 0.87 is flowing? Neglect losses.
7.16 Fluid is flowing through the following 1-in fittings; 3 threaded ells, 6 tees, 7 globe valves,
and 9 unions. If the head loss is 7.2 ft, what is the velocity of the liquid?

7.17 The drag coefficient on a 6.3-in diameter sphere is 0.35. What is its velocity through a
liquid with a SG = 0.79 if the drag force is 4.8 lb?
7.18 A square disc is placed in a moving liquid, the drag force on the disc is 6.3 lbs when the
liquid has a velocity of 3.4 ft/s. If the liquid has a density of 78.3 lb/ft3 and the drag coefficient is
0.41, what is the size of the square?

7.19 The 8 × 32-in3 cylinders in a positive displacement meter assembly are rotating at a rate of
570 revolutions an hour. What is the average flow rate per min?
 7.20 Alcohol flows in a horizontal pipe 3.2-in diameter; the diameter of the pipe is reduced to
1.8 in. If the differential pressure between the two sections is 1.28 psi, what is the flow rate
through the pipe? Neglect losses.
8.1 Convert the following temperatures to Fahrenheit: 115°C, 456 K, and 423°R.

8.2 Convert the following temperatures to Rankine: −13°C, 645 K, and −123°F.
8.3 Convert the following temperatures to Centigrade: 115°F, 356 K, and 533°R.

8.4 Convert the following temperatures to Kelvin: −215°C, −56°F, and 436°R.
8.5 How many calories of energy are required to raise the temperature of 3 ft3 of water 15°F?

8.6 A 15-lb block of brass with a specific heat of 0.089 is heated to 189°F and then immersed in
5 gal of water at 66°F. What is the final temperature of the brass and water? Assume there is no
heat loss.
8.7 A 4.3-lb copper block is heated by passing a direct current through it. If the voltage across
the copper is 50 V and the current is 13.5 A, what will be the increase in the temperature of the
copper after 17 min? Assume there is no heat loss. 138 Chapter Eight

8.8 A 129 kg lead block is heated to 176°C from 19°C, how many calories are required?
8.9 One end of a 9-in long × 7-in diameter copper bar is heated to 59.4°F, the far end of the bar
is held at 23°C. If the sides of the bar are covered with thermal insulation, what is the rate of
heat transfer?
8.10 On a winter’s day the outside temperature of a 17-in thick concrete wall is −29°F, the wall is
15 ft long and 9 ft high. How many BTUs are required to keep the inside of the wall at 69°?
Assume the thermal conductivity of the wall is 0.8 BTU/h ft°F. 8.11 When the far end of the
copper bar in Prob.

8.11 has a 30-ft2 cooling fin attached to the end of the bar and is cooled by air convection, the
temperature of the fin rises to t °F. If the temperature of the air is 23°F and the coefficient of
heat transfer of the surface is 0.22 BTU/h, what is the value of t?
8.12 How much heat is lost due to convection in a 25-min period from a 52 ft × 14-ft wall, if the
difference between the wall temperature and the air temperature is 54°F and the surface of the
wall has a heat transfer ratio of 0.17 BTU/h ft2 °F?
8.13 How much heat is radiated from a surface 1.5 ft × 1.9 ft if the surface temperatures is
125°F? The air temperature is 74°F and the radiation constant for the surface is 0.19 × 10−8
BTU/h ft2 °F4 ?

8.14 What is the change in length of a 5-m tin rod if the temperature changes from 11 to 245°C?
8.15 The length of a 115-ft metal column changes its length to 115 ft 2.5 in when the
temperature goes from −40 to 116°F. What is the coefficient of expansion of the metal?

8.16 A glass block measures 1.3 ft × 2.7 ft × 5.4 ft at 71°F. How much will the volume increase if
the block is heated to 563°F?
8.17 What is the coefficient of resistance per degree Celsius of a material, if the resistance is
2246 Ω at 63°F and 3074 Ω at 405°F?
8.18 A tungsten filament has a resistance of 1998 Ω at 20°C. What will its resistance be at
263°C?

8.19 A chromel–alumel thermocouple is placed in a 1773°F furnace. Its reference is 67°F. What
is the output voltage from the thermocouple?
8.20 A pressure-spring thermometer having a time constant of 1.7 s is placed in boiling water
(212°F) after being at 69°F. What will be the thermometer reading after 3.4 s?