1.

Discharge losses through orifices are due to

A. Friction losses
B. Minor losses
C. Both friction and minor losses
D. Pressure losses

The answer is: C

2. Which of the following is not a similarity between a submerged culvert and a siphon
A. They both operate full
B. Torricelli’s equation holds
C. Both can experience entrance and exit losses
D. In both, the water flows downhill

The answer is: B

3. In parallel pipe system originating and terminating in common junctions

A. Mass flows through each branch are equal
B. Pressure drops through each branch are equal
C. Lengths of each branch are equal
D. Flow areas of each branch are equal

The answer is: B

4. Flows through multi-loop systems may be computed by

A. Any closed-form solution of simultaneous equations
B. The Hardy-Cross method
C. Trial and error
D. All of the above

The answer is: D

5. Flow measuring devices include all of the following except

A. Venture meters
B. Static pressure probes
C. Turbine and propeller meters
D. Magnetic dynamometers

The answer is: D

6. Flow measuring devices include all of the following except

A. Orifice plate meters
B. Hot-wire anemometers
C. Magnetic flow meters
D. Mercury barometers

The answer is: D

7. Flow measuring devices include all of the following except

A. Flow nozzles
B. Venture area meters
C. Pitot tubes
D. Precision tachometers

The answer is: D

8. The following are examples of indirect (secondary) measurements to measure flow rates using obstruction meters
except
A. Variable area meters
B. Venture meters
C. Volume tanks
D. Flow nozzles

The answer is: C

9. The following are examples of indirect (secondary) measurements to measure flow rates using obstruction meters
except
A. Pitot static meters
B. Static pressure probes
C. Weight and mass probes
D. Direction-sensing probes
 The answer is: C

10. The following are all examples of indirect (secondary) miscellaneous methods to measure flow except
A. Turbine and propeller meters
B. Magnetic flow meters
C. Positive displacement meters
D. How-wire anemometers

The answer is: C

11. In series pipe systems, all of the following parameters vary from section to section except
A. Pressure drop
B. Friction loss
C. Head loss
D. Mass flow

The answer is: D

12. The coefficient of velocity, Cv, accounts for the

A. Effects on the flow friction of contraction, friction, and turbulence
B. Small effect of friction and turbulence of the orifice
C. Changes in diameters of a converging pipe
D. Effects of compressibility

The answer is: B

13. Expansion factors take into account the

A. Area of the vena contracta
B. Small effect of friction and turbulence of the orifice
C. Changes in diameters of a converging pipe
D. effects of compressibility

The answer is: D

14. In fluid flow, linear momentum is

A. A vector quantity equal to the product of mass and velocity
B. A scalar quantity equal to the product of mass and velocity
C. A scalar quantity equal to the product of force and length of time is applied
D. The change in impulse

The answer is: A

15. All of the following fluid phenomena are based on the force momentum principle of a flowing fluid except
A. Turbines
B. Pelton wheels
C. Diesel automobile engines
D. Jet engines

The answer is: C

16. The matching of scale model and full-scale results for a fluid dynamic phenomena with a free surface requires
equality of
A. Reynolds number
B. Weber number
C. Froude number
D. Cauchy number

The answer is: C

17. The matching of scale model and full-scale results for a fluid dynamic phenomena involving compressible fluids
requires equality of
A. Reynolds number
B. Weber number
C. Froude number
D. Cauchy number
 The answer is: D

18. The matching of scale model and full-scale prototype results for a fluid dynamic phenomena involving surface tension
requires equality of
A. Reynolds number
B. Weber number
C. Froude number
D. Cauchy number

The answer is: B

19. The matching of scale model and full-scale prototype results for a fluid dynamic phenomena involving a fully
submerged body requires equality of
A. Reynolds number
B. Weber number
C. Froude number
D. Cauchy number

The answer is: A

20. The water hammer phenomenon is primarily what kind of fluid mechanics?
A. Static(a phenomenon independent of time)
B. Dynamic(a time-dependent phenomenon)
C. Compressible
D. Incompressible

The answer is: B

21. All of the following are forms of drag on a body moving through a fluid except
A. Skin friction
B. Wake drag
C. Profile drag
D. D’ Alembert’s paradox drag

The answer is: D

22. The magnitude of the drag coefficient of a sphere in water is dependent upon all of the following except
A. Fluid density
B. Fluid velocity
C. Units measure (SI or English Engineering System)
D. Drag force

The answer is: C

23. The fact that there is no resistance to bodies moving through an ideal (nonviscous) fluid is known as
A. Reynold’s analogy
B. D’ Alembert’s paradox
C. Newton’s second law
D. The second law of thermodynamics

The answer is: B

24. The fact that a fluid’s velocity increases as the cross sectional area of the pipe through which it flows decreases is due
to
A. Bernoulli’s equation
B. The continuity equation
C. The momentum equation
D. The perfect gas law

The answer is: B

25. Which of the following is dimensionless grouping for the energy extracted from a flow by a turbine (where P= power,
Q= volumetric flow rate,n=specific weight, H=head)?
A. P nQH
B. nQ/PH
C. P/QnH
D. Qn/PH

The answer is: C

26. When a falling object reaches a speed at which the drag force equals weight, it has achieved
A. Mach one
B. A laminar boundary layer
C. A turbulent boundary layer
D. Terminal velocity

The answer is: C

27. One could expect the possibility of Reynolds number similarity in all of the following cases except
A. Submarines
B. Torpedoes
C. Seaplane hulls
D. Supersonic aircraft

The answer is: C

28. One could expect the possibility of Reynolds number similarity in all of the following cases except
A. Pumps
B. Fans
C. Turbines
D. Weirs

The answer is: D

29. One could expect the possibility of Froude number similarity in all of the following cases except
A. surface ships
B. surface wave motion
C. flow over weirs
D. closed-pipe turbulent pipe flow

The answer is: D

30. One could expect the possibility of Froude number similarity in all of the following cases except
A. Motion of a fluid jet
B. Flow over spillways
C. Surge and flood waves
D. Subsonic airfoils

The answer is: D

31. A constant pressure process is

A. Isobaric
B. Isothermal
C. Adiabatic
D. Isentropic

The answer is: A

32. A constant volume process is

A. Isobaric
B. Isothermal
C. Adiabatic
D. Isometric

The answer is: D

33. A constant entropy process is

A. Isobaric
B. Isothermal
C. Adiabatic
D. Isentropic

The answer is: C

34. A constant temperature process is

A. Isobaric
B. Isothermal
C. Adiabatic
D. Isentropic

The answer is: B

35. A process with no heat transfer
A. Isobaric
B. Isothermal
C. Adiabatic
D. Isometric

The answer is: C

36. A thermodynamic process whose deviation from equilibrium is infinitesimal at all times is
A. reversible
B. isentropic
C. in quasi equilibrium
D. Isenthalpic

The answer is: C

37. Which thermodynamic properly best describes the molecular activity of a substance?
A. Enthalpy
B. Entropy
C. Internal energy
D. External energy

The answer is: C

38. Liquids and gases take the following characteristic(s) of their contents
A. Volume
B. Shape
C. Shape and volume
D. Neither shape nor volume

The answer is : B

39. For computation convenience, fluids are usually classed as

A. Rotational or irrotational
B. Real or ideal
C. Laminar or turbulent
D. Newtonian or dilatent

The answer is : B

40. Which of the following statements about Newtonian fluid is most accurate?
A. Shear stress is proportional to strain.
B. Viscosity is zero.
C. Shear stress is multi-valued.
D. Shear stress is proportional to rate of strain.

The answer is : D

41. Which of the following is not a characteristic of real fluids?

A. Finite viscosity
B. Non-uniform velocity distributions
C. Compressibility
D. Experience of eddy currents and turbulence

The answer is: D

42. Which of the following is not the mass density of water?

A. 62.5 lbm/ft3
B. 100 kg/m3
C. 1 g/cm3
D. 1 kg/L

The answer is: B

43. Which of the following is not a characteristic of fluid pressure?

A. It is the same in all directions at point in the fluid.
B. It acts normal to a surface.
C. It is a shear stress.
D. It is linear with depth.

The answer is: C

44. Which of the following statements about gauge pressure is most correct? Gauge pressures are measured relative to
A. Atmospheric pressure.
B. A vacuum.
C. Each other.
D. The surface.

The answer is: A

45. Gauge pressure and absolute pressure differ from each other by
A. The system units.
B. Atmospheric pressure.
C. The size of the gauge.
D. Nothing-they mean the same thing.

The answer is: B

46. Each of the following are correct values of standard atmospheric pressure except
A. 1.000 atm.
B. 14.962 psia.
C. 760 torr.
D. 1013 mm Hg.

The answer is: D

47. Device used to measure accurately sppeed

A. speedometer
B. dial indicator
C. tachometer
D. dial gauge

The answer is: C

48. Permanent deformation or strain may occur without fracture

A. malleability
B. elasticity
C. ductility
D. plasticity

The answer is: C

49. Metal that assists lubrication or lubricant in itself

A. zinc
B. antimony
C. babbitt
D. lead

The answer is: C

50. A mechanism which usually do the indexing in machine tool

A. universal chuck
B. slotter
C. dividing head
D. indexing

The answer is: C