CECA 2 – LECTURE PROBLEMS NO.

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1. If 6 m3 of soil weight 47 KN, calculate the following.
a. Specific Weight
b. Density
c. Specific Gravity

2. For the open tank with piezometers attached on the side, contains two
different liquids.
a. Find the elevation of the liquid in piezometer A.
b. Find the pressure at the bottom of the tank.
c. Find the elevation of the liquid in piezometer B.

3. Oil of sp.gr. 0.750 flows through the nozzle shown and deflects the mercury
in the U-tube gage.
a. Determine the value of h if the pressure at A is 142 kPa.
b. What is the pressure at B.
c. If the diam. at A is 200 mm, compute the velocity at A if oil flows at a
rate of 36000 liters per minute.

4. A cylinder glass tubing 2.8 cm. inside diameter and 90 cm long with one end closed is immersed vertically with
the open end down into a tank of cleaning solvent (sp.gr. = 0.73) until only 5 cm. of its length remain above the
liquid surface. If the barometric pressure is 1 kg/cm2 and neglecting vapor pressure,
a. How high will the fluid rise in the tube?
b. Compute the height of air inside the glass.
c. What force required to maintain equilibrium.

5. The 8 ft. diam. cylinder weighs 500 lb. and rests on the bottom of a tank that is 3 ft. long. Water and oil are
poured into the left and right portions of the tank to depths of 2 ft. and 4 ft. respectively.
a. Find the horizontal component of the force that will kept the cylinder touching the tank at B.
b. Find the vertical component of the force that will push up the cylinder.
c. Compute the force that will keep the cylinder touching the tank at B.
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6. The 6 ft. diameter cylinder weighs 5000 lb. and is 5 ft. long.
a. Determine the upward force due to the effect of oil in the left side.
b. Compute the horizontal reaction at A.
c. Compute the vertical reaction at B.

7. From the figure shown.

a. Compute the horizontal component of the hydrostatic force.
b. Compute the vertical component of the hydrostatic force.
c. Compute the location of the vertical component horizontally from B.

8. A wooden storage vat, 20 ft. outside diam. is filled with 24 ft. of brine sp.gr. = 1.06. The wood staves are bound
by flat steel bands 2 in. wide by ¼ inch thick, whose allowable stress is 16,000 psi.
a. What is the bursting pressure?
b. What is the tensile force of steel bands.
c. What is the spacing of the bands near the bottom of the vat, neglecting any initial stress?

9. A concrete dam retaining water is shown. If the specific weight of concrete is

23.5 kN/m3.
a. Find the factor of safety against sliding.
b. Find the factor of safety against overturning if the coeff. of friction is 0.48.
c. Find the max. and min. pressure intensity
CECA 2 – LECTURE PROBLEMS NO. 02
1. A piece of wood of sp.gr. 0.651 is 3 in. square and 5 ft. long.
a. What is the volume of lead having a unit weight of 700 pcf that should be fastened at one end of the stick so
that it will float upright in 1 ft. out of water?
b. Determine the weight of the lead?
c. Determine the total weight of lead and the wood.

2. A piece of wood floats in water with 50 mm projecting above the water surface. When placed in glycerin of sp.gr.
1.35, the block projects 75 mm above the liquid surface.
a. Find the height of the piece of wood.
b. Find the sp.gr. of wood.
c. Find the weight of the wood if it has a cross sectional area of 200 mm x 200 mm.

3. A barge with a flat bottom and square ends has a draft of 1.8 m. when fully loaded and floating in an upright
position. The barge is 7.6 m. wide and 12.8 m. long and a height of 3 m. The center of gravity of the barge is 0.30
m. above the water surface if the barge is stable.
a. Determine the distance of the metacenter above the center of buoyancy.
b. Determine the distance of the metacenter above the barge center of gravity.
c. What is the righting moment in water when the angle of heel is 12°?

4. A tank is 1.5 m. square and contains 1.0 m. of water. How high must its sides be if no water is to be spilled when
the acceleration is 4 m/s2 parallel to a pair of sides?

5. A rectangular tank 6 m. long by 1.8 m. deep and 2.10 m. wide is filled with water accelerated in the direction of
its length at a rate of 1.52 m/sec2. How many liters of water are spilled out?
CECA 2 – LECTURE PROBLEMS NO. 02
6. An open cylindrical tank, 1.8 m. and 0.9 m. in diameter contains water to a depth of 3⁄4 of its height. If the
cylinder rotates about its geometric axis.
a. What constant angular velocity can be attained without spilling any water?
b. What is the pressure at the center of the bottom of the tank when ω = 6 rad/sec?
c. What is the pressure at the bottom wall of the tank when ω = 6 rad/sec?

7. A closed vessel 1 m. in diameter is completely filled with water. If the vessel is rotated at 1200 rpm, what
increase in pressure will occur at the top of the tank at the circumference?

8. Two reservoirs A and B have elevations of 250 m and 100 m respectively. It is connected by a pipe having a
diameter of 25 mmø and a length of 100 m. A turbine is installed at point in between reservoirs A and B. If C =
120, compute the following if the discharge flowing in the pipe is 150 liters/sec.
a. Head loss of pipe due to friction.
b. The head extracted by the turbine.
c. The power generated by the turbine.
CECA 2 – LECTURE PROBLEMS NO. 03
1. An orifice 150 mm in diameter, having a coeff. of contraction of 0.62 discharges oil (sp.gr. = 0.80) under a head of
7.50 m. The average actual velocity of the jet is 11.65 m/s.
a. Compute the coeff. of velocity.
b. Compute the headloss of the orifice.
c. Compute the diameter of the jet at the vena contracta.

2. The absolute viscosity of the liquid is 1.8 x 10-3 Pa.s and its sp.gr. is 0.90.
a. Compute the equivalent kinematic viscosity in m2/s.
b. Compute the equivalent value in stokes.
c. If the viscosity is 0.0126 stokes what is the equivalent kinematic viscosity in m2/s.

3. A pipe network consists of pipeline 1 from A to B, then at B it is connected to pipelines 2 and 3, where it merges
again at joint C to form a single pipeline 4 up to point D. Pipelines 1, 2 and 4 are in series connection whereas
pipelines 2 and 3 are parallel to each other. If the rate of flow from A to B is 10 liters/sec and assuming f = 0.02
for all pipes, compute the following:
Pipelines Diameter Length
1 200 mm 3000 m
2 300 mm 2200 m
3 200 mm 3200 m
4 400 mm 2800 m

a. Rate of flow of pipeline 3.

b. Rate of flow of pipeline 2.
c. Total head loss from A to D.
CECA 2 – LECTURE PROBLEMS NO. 03
4. The three reservoirs A, B and C are connected by pipelines A, B and C respectively. the elevation of reservoir A is
equal to 200 m. while that of C is 178 m. The discharge flowing towards reservoir B is 0.60 m 3/s. Reservoir B is
higher than that of C.
Pipes Diameter Length Friction Factor “f”
A 800 mm 1500 m 0.0158
B 600 mm 450 m 0.0168
C 450 mm 1200 m 0.0175

a. Compute the rate of flow out of reservoir A.

b. Compute the rate of flow towards reservoir C.
c. Compute the elevation of reservoir

5. A valve is suddenly closed in a 200 mmø pipe. The increase in pressure is 700 kPa. Assuming that the pipe is rigid
and the bulk modulus of water is 2.07 x 109 N/m2.
a. Compute the celerity of the pressure wave.
b. Compute the velocity of flow.
c. If the length of the pipe is 650 m. long, compute the water hammer pressure at the valve if it is closed in 3
sec.

6. A cylindrical vessel 2 m. in diameter and 3 m. high has a rounded circular orifice 50 mm in diameter at the
bottom. If the vessel is filled with water, how long will it take to lower the water surface by 2 m. Assume C = 0.60
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7. A rectangular channel having a width of 3 m. carries water flowing at a rate of 20 m3/s. If the depth of water in
the channel is 1.2 m., compute the critical kinetic energy.

8. A trapezoidal channel has a bottom width of 6 m. and side slopes of 2 hor. to 1 vertical. When the depth of flow
is 1.2 m., the flow is 30.40 m3/s.
a. Compute the specific energy.
b. Compute the slope of channel if n = 0.014.
c. Compute the average shearing stress at the boundary.

9. A circular concrete sewer 1.5 m. in diameter and flowing half full has a slope of 4 m per 5 km. Determine the
discharge if n = 0.013.