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Subject Project Title: Hydr - Hydraulics Homework 1 I

The document outlines a homework assignment for a hydraulics course, consisting of various problems related to fluid properties, including calculations of capillarity, viscosity, and density changes under pressure. Students are instructed to provide complete solutions with necessary free body diagrams and are encouraged to collaborate without copying. Specific problems include calculating shear stress, fluid viscosity, and the effects of pressure on gas and liquid densities.

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Subject Project Title: Hydr - Hydraulics Homework 1 I

The document outlines a homework assignment for a hydraulics course, consisting of various problems related to fluid properties, including calculations of capillarity, viscosity, and density changes under pressure. Students are instructed to provide complete solutions with necessary free body diagrams and are encouraged to collaborate without copying. Specific problems include calculating shear stress, fluid viscosity, and the effects of pressure on gas and liquid densities.

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NAME YR.

& SECTION SCORE


SUBJECT HYDR | HYDRAULICS
PROJECT TITLE HOMEWORK 1 I | Fluid Properties

INSTRUCTIONS:
Solve all the problems in this set.
Write complete solution and draw all the necessary FBD’s to support your answers.
Box your final answers
You are encouraged to collaborate with others on this homework but do not just copy another student’s work

PROBLEM 6
PROBLEM 1
Calculate the capillarity effect in mm in a glass tube of 6mm diameter
One litre of crude oil weighs 9.6 N. Calculate the specific weight, density,
when immersed in (a) water, and (b) mercury, both liquids being at
and specific gravity.
20°C. Assume 𝜎 to be 73X10-3 N/m for water and 0.5 N/m for mercury.
The contact angles for water and mercury are zero and 130°
PROBLEM 2
3 respectively.
The velocity distribution for flow over a flat plate is given by 𝑢 = 2 𝑦 −
𝑦 3/2 , where 𝑢 is the point velocity in meter per second at a distance 𝑦
meter above the plate. Determine the shear stress at 𝑦 = 9 cm. Assume PROBLEM 7
dynamic viscosity as 8 poise. It is observed that the density of an ideal gas increases by 10 percent
when compressed isothermally from 10 atm to 11 atm. Determine the
PROBLEM 3 percent increase in density of the gas if it is compressed isothermally
A plate 0.025 mm distant from a fixed plate, moves at 50 cm/s and from 1000 atm to 1001 atm.
requires 1.471 Pa to maintain this speed. Determine the fluid viscosity
between the plates in poise. PROBLEM 8
Water at 1 atm pressure is compressed to 400 atm pressure
isothermally. Determine the increase in the density of water. Take the
PROBLEM 4 isothermal compressibility of water to be 4.80 x 10-5 atm-1.
An oil film of thickness 1.5 mm is used for lubrication between a square
plate of size 0.9 m X 0.9 m and an inclined plane having an angle of
inclination 20°. The weight of the square is 392.4 N and it slides down PROBLEM 9
the plane with a uniform velocity of 0.2 m/s. Find the dynamics viscosity A thin 30-cm X 30-cm flat plate is pulled at 3 m/s horizontally through
of the oil. a 3.6-mm-thick oil layer sandwiched between two plates, one stationary
and the other moving at a constant velocity of 0.3 m/s, as shown. The
PROBLEM 5 dynamic viscosity of the oil is 0.027 Pa-s. Assuming the velocity in each
Find the capillary rise of water in a tube 0.03cm diameter. The surface oil layer to vary linearly, determine the force that needs to be applied on
tension of water is 0.0735 N/m. the plate to maintain this motion

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