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Fluid Mechanics Objective
Fluid Mechanics Objective
If you swim to 4.0m below the surface, what will happen to the absolute pressure on
you?
The absolute pressure quadruples.
The absolute pressure more than doubles.
The absolute pressure exactly doubles.
The absolute pressure less than doubles. correct
Explanation:
2. What amount of pressure does a 75.0kg man exert on the ground if the bottom of
each of his shoes covers an area of 250cm2?
12000Pa
13500Pa
14700Pa correct
16800Pa
Explanation:
3. If the man lifts one of his feet, what happens to the pressure he is exerting on the
ground?
The pressure will double. correct
The pressure will be divide in half.
The pressure will decrease, but not by half.
The pressure will not change.
Explanation:
If the man lifts one foot, the area on which the man's weight is being exerted will be
halved.
Sind Pressure=Force/Area, the pressure will double.
Explanation:
5. A hydraulic car lift has a pump piston with radius R1=0.015m and a resultant piston
with radius R2=0.12m. The combined weight of the car and the plunger is W=2500N.
Assume that the height of the piston and plunger are the same.
How much force is required on the pump piston to keep the car in equilibrium?
29N
34N
39N correct
44N
49N
Explanation:
6. The container is filled 1m with water, 3m with bromine, 4m with iodine, and 2m with
mercury.
462kPa
562kPa correct
662kPa
762kPa
862kPa
Explanation:
Pgague=(hwater+SGbrominehbromine+SGiodinehiodine+SGmercuryhmercury)gwat
er
Pgague=(1m+3.123m+4.934m+13.592m)1000kg/m39.8m/s2
Pgague=562kPa.
N/m2
Pa
kg/ms2
Ns correct
dyne/cm2
Explanation:
What is the difference between the pressures inside and outside a tire called?
absolute pressure
atmospheric pressure
gauge pressure correct
N/m2
total pressure
Explanation
Gauge pressure uses atmospheric pressure as a zero reference point while absolute pressure
uses the pressure in a perfect vacuum as a zero reference point. So, the pressure difference
between the inside and the outside of a tire will be called guage pressure.
Buoyancy
Instructions:
Use this information and what you learned from the videos to answer the questions
below.
Important Information:
helium =0.179kg/m3
air =1.204kg/m3
pinewood =510kg/m3
butane =599kg/m3
pinene =857kg/m3
water =1000kg/m3
saltwater =1027kg/m3
trifluoroaceticacid =1489kg/m3
bromine =3120kg/m3
g =9.8m/s2
1. You pour Bromine, Butane, Trifluoroacetic Acid, and Pinene into the same container.
How will these liquids be arranged in your container from top to bottom?
Explanation
Fluids with a higher density will sink lower than those with a lower density.
Therefore the fluids will arrange from lowest density (top) to highest density (bottom).
2. A fishing weight is sinking toward the bottom of a lake.
As the fishing weight sinks deeper and deeper, the buoyant _________.force on it
increases
decreases
remains constant correct
will increase or decrease based on the shape of the fishing weight
Explanation
Buoyant force is equal to the weight of the fluid displaced by the fishing weight.
Since the fishing weight displaces the same amount of fluid regardless of its depth, the buoyant
force on the fishing weight does not change.
3. n Disney's Up, we see a house float through the air using only helium filled balloons! Let's
use some physics to see what this would take to replicate in the real world! His house and
everything in it has a weight W=1.0856x106N, and each balloon is a perfect sphere with
radius r=28cm.
Assume the house is simply sitting on the ground not connected to anything.
Neglect the weight of the balloons and helium for this first part. How many balloons are
needed to lift the house off the gound?
250000
500000
750000
1000000 correct
1250000
Explanation
The volume of a spherical balloon Vballoon=43r3
Vballoon =43(0.28m)3
Vballoon =0.0920m3
The buoyancy force of the balloons should be equal to the weight of the
house.
FB=W
airnballoonsVballoong=W
nballoons=WairVballoong
nballoons=1.0856x106N1.204kg/m30.0920m39.8m/s2
nballoons=1000000
4. We just calculated the floating house case without taking into consideration the
weight of the balloons or the weight of the helium. Conceptually, how will including
these factor into our results?
It won't have any effect.
We will need more balloons. correct
We will need less balloons.
Explanation
Some of the buoyant force from each balloon will have to counteract the weight of the
helium and the balloon itself. So the effective lifting force of each balloon is less than
the lifting force assumed in the previous problem. Therefore, we will need more
balloons to lift the house.
6. A ball with a mass m=0.11kg and a volume V=0.025m3 is tethered to the bottom of a
container filled with water to a depth D=25cm. It is suspended so that the top of the
ball is a distance L=10cm from the bottom of the container.
What is the tension T in the string?
24 N
244 N correct
268 N
312 N
Explanation:
7. A foam pool toy has a volume of 280cm3 and floats on the water in a swimming pool.
A pair of diving goggles with the same volume is resting on the bottom of the pool.
Which one has the greater buoyant force on it?
The foam toy
The diving goggles correct
They have the same buoyant force
Not enough information
Explanation
The buoyant force is equal to the weight of the displaced volume of fluid. Since the googles
are completely submerged, they are displacing more fluid and have a greater buoyant force.