barnes (adb2692) – HW #11 Fluids – pillitteri – (22654)
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001 10.0 points
Air within the funnel of a large tornado may
have a pressure of only 0.2 atm.
What is the approximate outward force F
on a 5.6 m × 23 m wall if a tornado suddenly
envelopes the house? Atmospheric pressure is
1.013 × 105 Pa.
Answer in units of N.
002 (part 1 of 2) 10.0 points
A rock weighs 110 N in air and has a volume
of 0.00202 m3 .
What is its apparent weight when sub-
merged in water? The acceleration of gravity
is 9.8 m/s2 .
Answer in units of N.
003 (part 2 of 2) 10.0 points
If it is submerged in a liquid with a density
exactly 2.4 times that of water, what will be
its new apparent weight?
Answer in units of N.
004 10.0 points
Blood of density 1660 kg/m3 that is to be ad-
ministered to a patient is raised about 0.999 m
higher than the level of the patient’s arm.
How much greater is the pressure of the
blood than it would be if the container were
at the same level as the arm? The acceleration
of gravity is 9.8 m/s2 .
Answer in units of Pa.
005 (part 1 of 2) 10.0 points
In a car lift used in a service station, com-
pressed air exerts a force on a small piston
of circular cross-section having a radius of
4.56 cm. This pressure is transmitted by a
liquid to a second piston of radius 28.3 cm.
What force must the compressed air exert
in order to lift a car weighing 14400 N?
Answer in units of N.
006 (part 2 of 2) 10.0 points
1
What air pressure will produce this force?
Answer in units of Pa.
007 10.0 points
The small piston of a hydraulic lift has a
cross-sectional area of 6.1 cm2 and the large
piston has an area of 93 cm2 , as in the figure
below.
F
area
6.1 cm2
93 cm2
What force F must be applied to the small
piston to maintain the load of 38 kN at a
constant elevation?
Answer in units of N.
008 10.0 points
The depth of water behind the Hoover Dam
in Nevada is 120 m.
What is the water pressure at a depth
of 120 m? The weight density of water is
9800 N/m3 .
Answer in units of N/m2 .
009 (part 1 of 2) 10.0 points
How much pressure is applied to the ground
by an 86 kg man who is standing on square
stilts that measure 0.05 m on each edge?
Answer in units of Pa.
010 (part 2 of 2) 10.0 points
What is this pressure in pounds per square
inch?
Answer in units of lb/in2 .
011 10.0 points
Water flows at speed of 5.8 m/s through a
horizontal pipe of diameter 3.3 cm . The gauge
pressure P1 of the water in the pipe is 1.7 atm .
A short segment of the pipe is constricted to
a smaller diameter of 2.2 cm .
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1.7 atm ameter dz . The diameter of the pipe changes

P1 P2 to dx at its exit end. The elevation of the en-
trance is h above the elevation of the exit end
of the pipe. The pressure at the exit of the
pipe is Px and Patm is atmospheric pressure.
5.8 m/s v2
2.2 cm Pz
3.3 cm

What is the gauge pressure of the water

flowing through the constricted segment? At- Px
vz h
mospheric pressure is 1.013 × 105 Pa . The
dz
density of water is 1000 kg/m3 . The viscosity
of water is negligible.
Answer in units of atm. vx
dx
012 (part 1 of 2) 10.0 points
Applying Bernoulli’s principle, what is the
A liquid of density 1367 kg/m3 flows with
pressure Pz at the entrance end of the pipe?
speed 1.33 m/s into a pipe of diameter 0.22 m .
The diameter of the pipe decreases to 0.05 m 1
at its exit end. The exit end of the pipe is 1. Pz = Px − Patm − ρ g h + ρ (vz 2 − vx 2 )
2
4.87 m lower than the entrance of the pipe, 1
and the pressure at the exit of the pipe is 2. Pz = Px + ρ g h + ρ (vz 2 − vx 2 )
2
1.1 atm .
1
P1 3. Pz = Px − ρ g h + ρ (vx2 − vz 2 )
2
4. Pz = Px + ρ g h
1
1.33 m/s P2 1.1 atm 4.87 m 5. Pz = Px + ρ g h + ρ (vx2 − vz 2 )
0.22 m 2
1
6. Pz = Px − ρ g h + ρ (vz 2 − vx 2 )
2
v2 1
0.05 m 7. Pz = −ρ g h + ρ (vx2 − vz 2 )
2
What is the velocity v2 of the liquid flowing 1
8. Pz = ρ g h + ρ (vz 2 − vx 2 )
out of the exit end of the pipe? Assume the 2
viscosity of the fluid is negligible and the fluid
9. Pz = Px − ρ g h
is incompressible. The acceleration of gravity
is 9.8 m/s2 and Patm = 1.013 × 105 Pa. 1
Answer in units of m/s. 10. Pz = Px − Patm + ρ g h + ρ (vx 2 − vz 2 )
2

013 (part 2 of 2) 10.0 points 015 (part 1 of 2) 10.0 points

Applying Bernoulli’s principle, what is the
pressure P1 at the entrance end of the pipe?
Answer in units of Pa.
014 10.0 points
An incompressible, non-viscous liquid of den-
sity ρ flows with speed vz into a pipe of di-
Engineers have developed a bathyscaph that
can reach ocean depths of 9.43 mi.
If the density of seawater is about
1030 kg/m3 , what is the absolute pressure
at that depth? The acceleration of gravity is
9.8 m/s2 .
Answer in units of Pa.
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016 (part 2 of 2) 10.0 points
If the inside of the vessel is maintained at
atmospheric pressure 1.013 × 105 Pa, what m
is the net force on a porthole of diameter
12.5 cm? ∆L
Answer in units of N.
k
017 10.0 points k
A large storage tank is filled to a height 51 cm.
The tank is punctured with a small hole at a (a) (b)
height 23 cm from the bottom of the tank.
What is the elongation ∆L of the spring?
The acceleration of gravity is 9.8 m/s2 .
Answer in units of cm.
h0 h
020 10.0 points
A block of mass 5.1 kg is completely immersed
in a liquid of density 943 kg/m3 . The block is
How far from the tank will the stream land? suspended by a thin wire, which experiences
Assume that the tank is very large so that the a tension of 21.3 N .
velocity of the liquid at the top of the tank is
zero.
Answer in units of cm. Scale
018 10.0 points
A Ping-Pong ball has a diameter of 1.76 cm
and average density of 0.086 g/cm3 .
What force would be required to hold it 5.1 kg
completely submerged under water? The ac-
celeration of gravity is 9.8 m/s2 .
Answer in units of N.
What is the volume of the submerged
019 10.0 points block? The acceleration of gravity is
A light spring of constant 152 N/m rests verti- 2
9.8 m/s .
cally on the bottom of a large beaker of water. Answer in units of m3 .
A 5.27 kg block of wood of density 612 kg/m3
is connected to the top of the spring and
the block-spring system is allowed to come to
static equilibrium.