PROBLEM 1

If a depth of liquid of 1m cause a pressure of 7kPa, what is the specific gravity of the
liquid?
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PROBLEM 2
What is the pressure 12.5m below the ocean? Use sp.gr. = 1.03 for salt water.
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PROBLEM 3
If the pressure 23 meter below a liquid is 338.445 kPa, determine its unit weight, mass
density, and specific gravity.
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PROBLEM 4
If the pressure at a point in the ocean is 60kPa, what is the pressure 27 meters below
this point?
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PROBLEM 5
If the pressure in air space above an oil (s=0.75) surface in closed tank is 15 kPa
absolute, what is the gage pressure 2m below the surface?
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PROBLEM 6
Find the absolute pressure in kPa at a depth of 10m below the free surface of oil of sp.gr.
0.75 if the barometric reading is 752 mmHg
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PROBLEM 7
A pressure gage 6m above the bottom of the tank containing a liquid reads 90 kPa.
Another gage height 4m reads 103kPa. Determine the specific weight of the liquid.
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PROBLEM 8
An open tank contains 5.8m of water covered with 3.2m of kerosene (Unit weight =
8kN/m^3). Find the pressure at the interface and at the bottom of the tank.
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PROBLEM 9
If atmospheric pressure is 95.7 kPa and the gage attached to the tank reads 188 mmHg
vacuum, find the absolute pressure within the tank.
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PROBLEM 10
The weight density of a mud is given by unit weight = 10 + 0.5h, where unit weight is in
kN/m^3 and h is in meters. Determine the pressure, in kPa, at a depth of 5m.
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PROBLEM 11
In the figure shown, if the atmospheric pressure is 101.03 kPa and the absolute pressure
at the bottom of the tank is 231.3b kPa, what is the specific gravity of olive oil?
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PROBLEM 12
If air had a constant specific weight of 12.2 N/m^3 and were incompressible, what would
be the height of the atmospheric pressure (sea level) is 102 kPa.
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PROBLEM 13
Assume specific weight of air to be constant at 12 N/m^3, what is the approximate
height of Mount Banahaw if a mercury barometer at the base of the mountain reads 654
mm and at the instant, another barometer at the top of the mountain reads 480 mm.
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PROBLEM 14
Compute the barometric pressure in kPa at an altitude of 1,200 m if the pressure at sea
level is 101.3 kPa. Assume isothermal conditions a 21 C. Use R = 287 Joule/ kg- K.
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PROBLEM 15
Convert 760 mm of mercury to (a) sp.gr. 0.82 and (b) water.
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PROBLEM 16
A barometer reads 760 mmHg and a pressure gage attached to a tank reads 850 cm of
oil (sp.gr. 0.80). What is the absolute pressure in the tank in kPa.
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PROBLEM 17
A hydraulic press is used to raised an 80-Kn cargo truck. If oil of sp.gr. 0.82 acts on the
piston under a pressure of 10 MPa, what diameter of piston is required?
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PROBLEM 18
Piston A has a cross-section of 1,200 sq.cm while that of piston B is 950 sq.cm. with the
latter higher that than piston A by 1.75 m. If the intervening passages are filled with oil
whose specific gravity is 0.8, what is the difference in pressure between A and B.
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PROBLEM 19
A drum 700 mm in diameter and filled with water has a vertical pipe, 20 mm in diameter,
attached to the top. How many newtons of water must be poured into the pipe to exert a
force of 6500 N of the top of the drum?
PROBLEM 20
In the figure shown, determine the weight W that can be carried by the 1.5 kN force
acting on the piston.
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PROBLEM 21
The figure shown shows a setup with a vessel containing a plunger and a cylinder. What
force F is required to balance the weight of the cylinder if the weight of the plunger is
negligible.
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PROBLEM 22
The hydraulic press shown is filled with oil with sp.gr. 0.82. Neglecting the weight of the
two pistons, what force F on the handle is required to support the 10 kN weight?
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PROBLEM 23
The fuel gage for a gasoline (sp.gr. = 0.68) tank in car reads proportional to its bottom
gage. If the tank is 30 cm deep an accidentally contaminated with 2 cm of water, how
many centimeters of gasoline does the tank actually contain when the gage erroneously
reads “FULL”?
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PROBLEM 24
For the tank shown in the Figure, h1 = 3m, h3 = 4m. Determine the value of h2.
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PROBLEM 25
In the figure shown, what is the static pressure in kPa in the air chamber?
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PROBLEM 26
For the manometer shown, determine the pressure at the center of the pipe.
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PROBLEM 27
Determine the value of y in the manometer shown in the Figure.
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PROBLEM 28
In the figure shown, when the funnel is empty the water surface is at point A and the
mercury of sp.gr. 13.55 shows a deflection of 15 cm. Determine the new deflection of the
mercury when the funnel is filled with water to B.
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PROBLEM 29
The pressure at point m in the figure shown was increased from 70 kPa to 105 kPa. This
causes he top level of mercury to move 20 mm in the sloping tube, what is the inclination?
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PROBLEM 30
The U-tube shown is 10 mm in diameter and contains mercury. If 12 ml of water is
poured into the right-hand leg, what are the ultimate heights in the two legs?
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PROBLEM 31
For a gage reading of 17.1 kPa, determine the (a) elevations of the liquids in the open
piezometer columns E, F, and G and (b) the deflection of the mercury in the U-tube
manometer neglecting the weight of air.
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PROBLEM 32
An open manometer attached to a pipe shows a deflection of 150 mmHg with the lower
level of mercury 450 mm below the centerline of the pipe carrying water. Calculate the
pressure at the centerline of the pipe.
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PROBLEM 33
For the figure shown, calculate the weight of the piston if the pressure gage reading is
70 kPa.
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PROBLEM 34
Two vessels are connected to a differential manometer using mercury, the connecting
tubing being filled with water. The higher pressure vessel is 1.5 m lower in elevation than
others. (a) If the mercury reading is 100 mm, what is the pressure head difference in
meters of water? (b) If carbon tetrachloride (s = 1.59) were used instead of mercury,
what would be the manometer reading for the same pressure difference?
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PROBLEM 35
In the figure shown, determine the height h of water and the gage reading at A when the
absolute pressure at B is 290 kPa.
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PROBLEM 36
In the figure shown, the atmospheric pressure is 101 kPa, the gage reading at A is 40
kPa, and the vapor pressure of alcohol is 12 kPa absolute. Compute x + y.
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PROBLEM 37
For the manometer setup shown, determine the difference in pressure between A and B.
PROBLEM 38
A differential manometer is attached to a pipe as shown. Calculate the pressure
difference between points A and B.
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PROBLEM 39
In the figure shown, the deflection of mercury is initially 250 mm. If the pressure at A is
increased by 40 kPa, while maintaining the pressure at B constant, what will be the new
mercury deflection?
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PROBLEM 40
A closed cylindrical tank contains 2m of water, 3m of oil (s = 0.82) and the air above oil
has a pressure of 30 kPa. If an open mercury manometer at the bottom of the tank has
1m of water, determine the deflection of mercury.
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