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Module 1
2 Marks Question
1. Define specific volume.

(NOV 09 2013)

2. Give some examples of surface tension

3. Define Surface tension
4. Define Newtons law of viscosity

(NOV 09 2013)
(OCT 09 2012)
(OCT 09 2011)

5. An oil of specific gravity 0.8 is in a vessel. The height of oil is 30 m. Find the
corresponding height of water at the point?
6. Define centre of buoyancy
7. Define capillarity

(OCT 09 2011)
(DEC 09 2010)
(DEC 09 2010)

5 Marks Questions
1. A flat plate of area 1.5 x 106 mm2 is pulled with a speed of 0.4 m/s relative to
another plate locate at a distance of 0.15 mm from it. Find the force and power
required to maintain this speed, if the fluid separating them is having the viscosity
of 1 poise.
(NOV 09 2013)
2. A right limb of simple U tube manometer containing mercury is open to the
atmosphere while the left limb is connected to a pipe in which a fluid of specific
gravity 0.9 is flowing. The centre of the pipe is 12 cm below the level of mercury
in the right limb. Find the pressure of fluid in the pipe is the difference of mercury
level in the two limbs is 20 cm.
(NOV 09 2013)
3. A rectangular plane surface is 2 m wide and 3 m deep. It lies in vertical plane in
water. Determine the total pressure and position of centre of pressure on the plane
surface when its upper edge is horizontal and coincides with water surface.
(NOV 09 2013)
4. A block of wood of specific gravity 0.7 floats in water. Determine the meta centric
height of the block if its size is 2 m x 1 m x 0.8 m

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5. Find the height through which water rises by capillary action in a glass tube of 2
mm bore if the surface tension at the prevailing temperature is 0.075 g/cm.
(OCT 09 2012)
6. A plate, 0.025 mm distant from a fixed plate, moves at 60 cm/s and requires a force
of 2 N per unit area i.e., 2 N/m2 to maintain this speed. Determine the fluid
viscosity between the plates.

(OCT 09 2012)

7. Calculate the pressure due to column of. 0.3 m of (a) Water (b) An oil of specific
gravity 0.8. Take density of water, p = 1000 kg/m3.
(OCT 09 2012)
8. What are the gauge pressure and absolute pressure at a point 4 m below the free
surface of a liquid of specific gravity 1.40, if atmospheric pressure is equivalent to
750 mm of mercury
9. State and explain Newtons law of viscosity.

(OCT 09 2011)
(DEC 04 2005, OCT 09 2011)

10.Explain how you would rind the resultant pressure on a curved surface immersed
in a liquid

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(DEC 04 2010)

11.Explain the Pascal law.

(DEC 09 2010)

12.Explain absolute, gauge and vacuum pressures

(DEC 09 2010)

Differentiate between :
(i) Dynamic viscosity and kinematic viscosity.
(ii) Absolute and gauge pressure.
14.Define the terms "buoyancy and centre of buoyancy".

(DEC 04 2009)
(DEC 04 2009)

15.Develop the expression for the relationship between the gauge pressure P inside a
droplet of liquid and the surface tension.

(DEC 04 2008)

16.What are the conditions of equilibrium of a floating body and a submerged body ?
(DEC 04 2008)
17.The relative density of a fluid is 1.26 and its dynamic viscosity is 1.50 kg/ms.
Calculate its (i) specific weight (ii) kinematic viscosity.

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18.Two discs of 20 cm diameter are placed 1mm apart and gap is filled with an oil of
viscosity 8 kg/ms. Determine power required to rotate upper disc at 600 r.p.m. while
holding the lower one stationary.
19.Define viscosity of fluid, what are 'Poise' and 'Stoke' ?

(DEC 04 2007)

(DEC 04 2006, 2010)

20.Define gauge pressure and absolute pressure. How are they related ?
(DEC 04 2006)
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21.A certain mass of a liquid has a volume of 5 m and a weight of 40 kN. Find the
specific weight, specific gravity and specific volume

(DEC 04 2006)

22.Define specific volume, specific gravity and density of fluid.

(DEC 04 2005)
23.State the hydrostatic law. What is the relation between gauge pressure and absolute
pressure ?
(DEC 04 2005)
24.Prove that the centre of pressure always lies below the centre of gravity on a flat
plate immersed in a liquid at some angle to the free surface.
(DEC 04 2005)
25.What is an inverted U-tube manometer ? Describe the method of pressure
measurement using such a manometer

(DEC 04 2005)

10 Marks Question
1. If the surface-tension of water in contact with air is 0.075 N/m , what correction
need to be applied towards capillary rise in the manometric reading in tube of 3mm
diameter ?
(NOV 09 2013)
2. A solid cylinder of diameter 4 m has a height of 3 m. Find the meta centric height of
the cylinder when it is flowing in water with its axis vertical. The specific gravity of
the cylinder = 0.6.

(NOV 09 2013)

3. If the velocity distribution over a plate is given by u=(2/3)y y2 in which u is the

velocity in meter per second at a distance y meter above the plate, determine the
shear stress at y = 0 and y = 0.15 m. Take dynamic viscosity of fluid as 8.63 poise.
(OCT 09 2012)

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4. The pressure intensity at a point in a fluid is given 3.924 N/cm2. Find the
corresponding height of fluid when the fluid is :
specific gravity 0.9.

(a)Water ; and (b) Oil of

(OCT 09 2012)

5. An inverted U-tube differential manometer connects two pressure pipes A and B.

Pipe A contains carbon tetrachloride having a specific gravity 1.5 under a pressure of
11.0 N/cm2 and Pipe B contain oil of specific gravity 0.8 under a pressure of 11.0
N/cm2. The pipe A lies 2.5 m below pipe B. Find the difference of pressure measured
by mercury as fluid filling inverted U-tube.
(OCT 09 2011)
6. A solid cylinder of diameter 5.0 m has a height of 4 m. Find the meta-centric height
of the cylinder when it is floating in water with its axis vertical. The specific gravity
of the cylinder = 0.6.

(OCT 09 2011)

7. A vertical lock gate 6m wide has water to a depth of 8m on one side and to a depth
of 3m on the other. Find the resultant force on the gate and the position of its line of
action. To what position does this line tend as the depth of water on the shallow side
rises to 8m.
(DEC 04 2010)
8. A ship 70m long and 10m broad has a displacement of 19620 kN. A weight of
343.35 kN is moved across the deck through a distance of 6m The ship is tilted
through 60. The moment of inertia of the .ship at water-line about its fore and aft
axis is 75% of MOI. of the circumscribing rectangle. The center of buoyancy is
2.25m below water line. Find the metacentric height and position of centre of gravity
of ship. Specific weight of sea water is 10.104 kN/m3

(DEC 04 2010)

9. If the velocity of a fluid over a plate is a parabolic with the vertex 20 cm from the
plate, where the velocity is 120 cm/s. Calculate the velocity gradients and shear
stresses at a distance of 0, 10 and 20 cm from the plate, if the viscosity of the fluid is
8.5 poise.

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10.A wooden log of 0.6m diameter and 5m length is floating in river water. Find the
depth of wooden log in water when the specific gravity of the log is 0.7
(DEC 09 2010)
11.Derive an expression for pressure at any point in a incompressible fluid in terms of
the height of that fluid column.

(DEC 04 2009)

12.The dynamic viscosity of an oil used for lubrication between a shaft and sleeve is 6
poise. The shaft is of diameter 0.4 m. and rotates at 190 RPM. Calculate the power
lost in the bearings for a sleeve length of 90 mm. The thickness of oil film is 1.5
mm.

(DEC 04 2009)

13.Derive an expression for the depth of centre of pressure from the free surface of
liquid of an inclined plane surface submerged in the liquid and also the magnitude
of the total force exerted by the liquid on the inclined plane.

(DEC 04 2009)

14.A rectangular pontoon is 5 m. long, 3 m wide and 1.2 m. high. The depth of
immersion of the pontoon is 0.8 m. in sea water (s = 1.025). If the centre of gravity
is 0.6 m. above the bottom of the pontoon, determine the meta centric height.
(DEC 04 2009)
15.Find the magnitude and direction of the resultant force due to water acting on a
roller gate of cylindrical form of 4 m diameter, when the gate is placed on the dam
in such a way that water is just going to spill. Take length of the gate as 8 m
(DEC 04 2008)
16.Define compressibility. Prove that compressibility for a gas undergoing isentropic
compression is 1/wp, where w = specific weight of the gas.
(DEC 04 2008)
17.A 15 cm diameter vertical cylinder rotates concentrically inside another cylinder of
diameter 15.1 cm. Both cylinders are 25 cm high. The space between the cylinders
is filled with a liquid whose viscosity is unknown. If the torque of 12.0 Nm is
required to rotate the inner cylinder at 100 rpm, find the viscosity of the fluid.
(DEC 04 2008)
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18.Derive the expression for the metacentric height of a floating body.

(DEC 04 2005, 2008)
Derive differential equation of pressure for static fluid
(DEC 04 2007)
20.Find the pressure represented by a column of (i) 10 cm of water (ii) 5 cm of oil of
relative density 0.75 (iii) 2 cm of mercury.
(DEC 04 2007)
21.A triangular plate 2 m. base and 3 m. altitude is immersed in water. The plane of the
plate is inclined at 300 with the free surface and the base is parallel to and at a depth
of 2 m. below the free water surface. Find the total pressure on one side of the plate
and the centre of pressure.
(DEC 04 2005, 2006)
22.A flat thin plate is dragged at a constant velocity of 4 m/s. on the top of a 5 mm.
deep liquid layer of viscosity 20 centipoise. If the area of the plate is 2 m 2, find the
force required.
(DEC 04 2006)
23.Describe the pressure measurement with manometers. Also explain the various
types of manometers.

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