Practice Problems Fluid Mechanics

1. A quart of water weights 4.08 lb. Compute mass in slugs?

2. If the specific volume of a certain gas is 0.7848 m3/kg, what is the specific weight? Find in Slugs/ft3?

3. What is the specific weight of air at 580 kPa absolute pressure are 26 degrees celsius?

4. The specific gravity of certain oil 0.92. Calculate its specific weight in lb/ft3?

5. A liter of water weighs about 19.75 N. Compute its mass kilograms.

6. What is the specific weight of air at 480 kPa absolute and 21 degrees celsius?

7. If the specific volume of a certain gas is 0.7848 m3/kg, what is its specific weight?

8. If 5.6 m3 of oil weights 46, 800 N. Calculate the Specific weight in lbf/ft3?

9. Air is kept at a pressure of 200 kPa absolute and temperature of 30 degrees celsius in a 500 liters

container. What is the mass of air?

10. If the depth of liquid of 1 m causes a pressure of 7 kPa, what is the specific gravity of the liquid?

11. If the pressure 23 meter below liquid is 338.445 kPa, determine its unit weight or specific weight,

density and specific gravity?

12. Find the pressure at the 600 fathoms depth of water in PSI.

13. Find the depth in furlong of the ocean (SG = 1.03) if the pressure at the sea bed is 2,432.5kPa.

14. Find the mass of carbon dioxide having a pressure of 40 psia at 200°F with 15 ft3 volume.

15. An ideal gas at 0.80 atmospheres and 87°C occupies 0.450 liter. How many moles are in the

sample? (R = 0.0821 liter-atm/mole-K).

16. A perfect gas has a value of R = 58.8 ft-lb/lb-°R and k = 1.26. If 20 Btu are added to 10 lbs of

this gas at constant volume when initial temperature is 90°F, find the final temperature.

17. A rigid container is closed at one end and measures 8 in diameter by 12 in long. The

container is held vertical and is slowly moved downward until the pressure in the container is

17 psia. What will be the depth of the top of the container from the free water surface?
18. Water flowing at the rate of 10 m/s from an orifice at bottom of a reservoir. Find the pressure at the

bottom of reservoir.

19. Air at 300 K and 200 kPa is heated at constant pressure to 600 K. Determine the change of

internal energy.

20. Air at 10°C and 80 kPa enters a diffuser of a jet engine steadily with a velocity of 200 m/s.

The inlet area of diffuser is 0.40 m2 Determine the mass flow rate of air.

A spherical balloon with a diameter of 6 m is filled with helium at 20°C and 200 kPa. Determine the

mole number.

21. If the gage pressure of a medium is 30 kPa (vacuum) and the atmospheric pressure is 101.3

kPa, the absolute pressure will be?

22. If a particle has a velocity of 4 meters per second and a kinetic energy of 144 Joules, then

the mass, in kilograms of this particle must be?

23. Determine the force in newton in a piston of 465 mm2 area with a pressure of 0.172 MPa.

24. A water tank 18 ft wide, 14 ft long, and 4 ft high, calculate the pressure at the bottom of

the tank.

25. A double purpose tank 18 ft wide, 24 ft long and 4 ft depth is filled with water. What is the

weight of water in the tank in long tons?

26. An iron block weighs 5 Newton and has a volume of 200 cm3 . What is the density of the block?

27. If air is at a pressure of 22.22 psia and at a temperature of 800°R, what is the specific

volume?

28. The Specific gravity of mercury is 13.55. What is the specific weight of mercury in KN/m 3?

29. The equivalent weight of mass 10 kg at a location where the acceleration of gravity is 9.77 m/s2?

30. How much does 30 lbm weigh on the moon? (gmoon = 5.47 ft/s2)

31. A 10 kg block is raised vertically 3 meters. What is the change in potential energy? Find in BTU?
32. The absolute pressure at the bottom of a vertical column of water is 15.5 psia. What is the

height of this column? Find in inches?

33. An oil storage tank contains oil with specific gravity of 0.88 and depth of 20 meters. What is the

hydrostatic pressure at the bottom of the tank in kg/cm2?

34. A vertical column of water will be supported to what height in feet using by standard atmospheric

pressure?

35. The specific weight of liquid is 60 lb/ft3. What is the equivalent to kN/m3

36. A cylinder weighs 150 lbf Its cross-sectional area is 40 square inches. When the cylinder stands

vertically on one end, what pressure does the cylinder exert on the floor?

37. What is the work required to accelerate an 800-kg car from rest to 100 km/h on a level

road? Fin in kJ?

38. If the specific weight of a liquid is 58.5 lbf per cubic foot, what is the specific volume of the

liquid in cm3?

39. To what height will a barometer column rise if the atmospheric conditions are 13.9 psia

and 68°F and barometer fluid is mercury? Find in cm?

40. What is the pressure 7000 ft below the water surface of the ocean? Neglect

Compressibility? Find pressure in PSF?

41. Water (ρ = 62.4 lbm/ft3) is flowing through a pipe. A pitot-static gage registers 3.0 inches of mercury.

What is the velocity of the water in the pipe? Note: ρHg = 848.6 lbm/ft3?

42. If the density of the gas is 0.003 slugs per cubic foot, what is the specific weight of the gas? Find in

N/m3?

43. The specific gravity of mercury relative to water is 13.55. What is the specific weight of

mercury? (The specific weight of water is 62.4 lbf per cubic foot.)

44. If the specific weight of a liquid is 58.5 lbf per cubic foot, what is the specific volume of the
 liquid in g/cm3?

45. What is the pressure at point A in the tank if h = 2 feet? (g = 32.2 ft/s2 and ρ = 1.94 slug/ft3? Find in

lbf/ft3?

46. If the load on water-cooled condenser is 150,000 Btu/hr and the temperature rise of the

water in the condenser is 10°F, what is the quantity of water circulated in gpm?

47. The load on a water-cooled condenser is 90,000 Btu/hr. if the quantity of water circulated

48. through the condenser is 15 gpm, determine the temperature rise of the water in the

condenser. Find in degrees Fahrenheit?

49. An oxygen cylinder of volume 2.3 ft3 has a pressure of 2200 psig and is at 70°F. Determine the mass

in lbs of oxygen in the cylinder?

50. The tank of an air compressor has a volume of 3 ft3 and is filled with air at a temperature of

40°F. If a gage on the tank reads 150 psig, what is the mass in lbs of the air in the tank?

51. What is the mass of acetylene gas, V = 0.94 cu. ft., R = 59.35 ft-lb/lb-°R, T = 90°F, P = 200

psia?

52. Specific volume is the number of cubic meters of mixture per kilogram of dry air. If dry air

has these following properties: Ra = 287 J/kg-K, T = 303 K, Pa = 99.604 kPa. Solve for the specific

volume.

53. Determine the density of air at 760 mmHg absolute and 22°C?

54. Fifty kilograms of cooling water per second enter the condenser at 25°C and leaves at

50°C. Find the heat carried away by water.

55. Calculate the density of methane at 100°F and 120 psia. Find in slugs/ft3?

56. At 90 °F and 30 psia, the specific weight of a certain gas was 0.00877 lb/ft3. Determine gas constant

and density of the gas? Find density in slug/ft3?

pressure is 14,.9 psia. Find in Slug/ft3?

58. One kilogram of Hydrogen is confined in a volume of 200 li at -45°C. What pressure if Rgas- 4.115

kJ/kg-°k? Find in PSI?

59. Nitrogen gas (molecular weight is 28) occupies a volume of 4.0 ft3 at 2500 lbf/ft2 abs and 750°R. what

are its specific volume and specific weight? Find specific and volume in ft3/slug and specific weight in

lbf/ft3?

60. The temperature and pressure of nitrogen in a tank are 28°C and 600 kpa abs. Determine the specific

weight of nitrogen in lbf/ft3?

61. A reservoir of glycerin has a mass of 1200 kg and a volume of 0.952 m3 . Find the specific weight in

Kn/m3?

62. A body requires a force of 100 kg-m/s2 accelerate at 20 m/s2 . Determine the mass in slugs?