FLUID MECHANICS, HOME WORK SHEET-2

1. A glass tube scaled at both ends is 1m long. It lies horizontally with the middle 10 cm containing Hg. the two
ends of the tube equal in length contain air at 27ºC and pressure 76 cm of Hg. The temperature at one ends
is kept 0ºC and at the other end it is 127ºC. Neglect the change in length of Hg column. Then the change in
length on two sides is
(A) 12.3 cm (B) 10.311 cm (C) 9.9 cm (D) 8.489 cm

2. A thin tube of uniform cross-section is seated at both ends. If lies horizontally. The middle 5 cm containing Hg
and two equal ends contain air at the same pressure P0. When the tube is held at an angle of 60º with the
vertical, the length of the air column above and below the Hg are 46 cm, 44.5 cm. Calculate pressure P0 in cm
of Hg. Assume temperature of the system constant.
(A) 55 cm of Hg (B) 65 cm of Hg (C) 70.4 cm of Hg (D) 75.4 cm of Hg

3. To construct a barometer, a tube of length 1 m is filled completely with mercury and is inverted in a mercury
cup. The barometer reading on a particular day is 76 cm. Suppose a 1 m tube is filled with mercury up to

R
76 cm. It is inverted in a mercury cup. The height of mercury column in the tube over the surface in the

I
cup will be
(A) zero (B) 76 cm (C) > 76 cm (D) < 76 cm

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4. A light cylindrical tube 'T' of length  and radius 'r' containing air is inverted
in water (density d1). One end of the tube is open and the other is closed.
A block 'B' of density d2 (>d1) is kept on the tube as shown inthe figure.

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The tube stays in equilbrium in the position shown. Find the volume of 'B'.
The density of the air is negligible as compared with the density of water.
What is the pressure of the air i the tube assuming that the atmospheric

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pressure is P 0 .

5. A container of a large uniform cross-sectional area A resting on a horizontal

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surface holds two immiscible, non-viscous and incompressible liquids of
densities 'd' and '2d' each of height (1/2)H as shown. The smaller density
liquid is open to atmosphere. A homogeneous solid cylinder of length
 1 
L   H  cross-sectional area (1/5)A is immersed such that it floats with
 2 
its axis vertical to the liquid-liquid interface with length (1/4) L in denser
liquid. If D is the density of the solid cylinder then :

3d d
(A) D  (B) D 
2 2
2d 5d
(C) D  (D) D 
3 4

6. A cylindrical wooden float whose base area S and the height H drifts on the water surface. Density of
wood d and density of water is . What minimum work must be performed to take the float out of the
water?

7. A cube (density 0.5 gm/cc) of side 10 cm is floating in water kept in a cylinderical beaker of base area
1500 cm2. When a mass m is kept on wooden block the level of water rises in the beaker by 2mm. Find
the mass m.
8. A U-tube of base length "  " filled with same volume of two liquids of
densities  and 2 is moving with an acceleration "a' on the horizontal
plane. If the height difference between the two surfaces (open to
atmosphere) becomes zero, then the height h is given by :

a 3a
(A)  (B) 
2g 2g
a 2a
(C)  (D) 
g 3g

9. The cubical container ABCDEFGH which is completely filled with an ideal (nonviscous and incompressible)
fluid, moves in a gravity free space with a acceleration of

a  a (iˆ  ˆj  kˆ )
0

R
where a0 is a positive constant. Then the only point in the container where pressure can be zero is

(A) H (B) C (C) E

10.

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A block is partially immersed in a liquid and the vessel is
accelerating upwards with an acceleration "a". The block is
observed by two observers O1 and O2, one at rest and the other
accelerating with an acceleration "a" upward. The total buoyant

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force on the block is :

(A) same for O1 and O2 (B) greater for O1 than O2

ANSWERS
HOME WORK SHEET-2
 
1. D 2. D 3. D 4. Pa  P0  d1 g  h   5. D
3

Sgd 2 H 2
6. 2
7. m = 300 gm. 8. B 9. A 10. A