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Phy130 Tutorial 8
Phy130 Tutorial 8
TUTORIAL 8
MATTER
1.
a) Define stress and strain.
b) Using a scale, a piece of alloy has a measured mass of 90.0 g in air and 75.0 g
when immersed in water. Calculate its buoyant force(Ans: FB=1.4715 x 10-1 N)
3. A block of metal weighs 50 N in air and 35 N in water. What is the buoyant force of
the water? (Ans: FB=15 N)
4. An aluminum wire 2.0 m in length and 2.0 mm in diameter supports a 10.0 kg mass.
What is the elongation of the wire? The Young's modulus for aluminum is 7.0x1010 Nm-2.
(Ans: x = 8.92 x 10-4 m)
5. A metal wire 1.5 m long and 0.2 cm in diameter stretches 0.036 cm when a load
of 5.0 kg is hung on its end. Calculate:
6.
a) In a hydraulic press such as in Figure below, the larger piston has a cross-
sectional area A1 = 200 cm2 and the small piston has cross-sectional area A2 =
5.0 cm2. If a force F2 of 250N is applied to the small piston, find the force F1 on
the large piston. (Ans: F1= 10 000 N)
b) A solid aluminum cylinder with density p = 2700 kg m-3 has a measured mass of
67 g in air and 45 g when immersed in turpentine. Determine the density of
turpentine. (Mac 2012) (Ans: = 8.86567 x 102 kgm-3)
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10. Calculate the pressure at a depth of 110 cm from the surface of a lake. Given
water density = 1000 kgm-3) (Ans: P gauge=1.12 x 105 Pa)
(Apr2010)
11. A solid brass statue weighs 190 N in air and is suspended from a rope and totally
immersed in water,
i. what is its volume ? (Ans: v = 2.29 x 10-3 m3)
ii. what is the tension in the rope ? (Ans: T= 189.60 N)
(ρbrass = 8440 kg/m3, ρwater = 1000 kg/m3)
12. The diagram below shows a hydraulic jack that used to lift a car which has a mass
of 1500 kg. A and B are two pistons with round surfaces. If the surface area of B is
130cm2 and the force, F supplied to lift the car is 60 N, determine the radius of A
surface. (Ans: r1=4.10 x 10-3 m)
13. The piston of a hydraulic automobile lift is 0.30 m in diameter. What pressure is
require to lift a car with a mass of 800 kg ? (Ans: P = 1.11 x 105 Pa)
14. A 5.0 x 102 N object is hung from the end of a wire of cross-sectional area 0.010
cm2. The wire stretches from its original length of 200.00 cm to 200.50 cm as
shown in Figure below: (Apr 2009)
i) What is the stress on the wire? (Ans: (a) = 5.0 x 108 Nm-2)
ii) What is the elongation strain on the wire? (Ans: (b)x = 5 x 10-3 m)
iii) Determine the Young's modulus of the wire. Ans: (c) = 2.0 x 1011 Nm-2 )
15.
a) The Young's modulus of wood is 13 x 109 N m-2. A force of 5 x 105 N is applied to a
wood specimen of length 2 m and cross sectional area 0.1 m 2. Compute the stress
and strain applied on the specimen. Ans: = 3.8462 x 10-4)
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16. A balloon is released from a tall building. The total mass of the balloon including the
enclosed gas is 2.0 kg. Its volume is 5.0 m3. The density of air is 1.3 kg/m3.
i) Find the buoyant force on the balloon. (Ans: FB=6.3765 x 101 N)
ii) What is the magnitude of the initial acceleration of the balloon? (Apr 2009)
(Ans: a =31.825 ms-1)
17. Water flows through a rubber hose which is has a cross sectional area of 0.2 m 2 at
a velocity of 6.0 ms-1.
i) Calculate the mass flow rate of water in the hose. (Ans: m =1200 kgs-1)
ii) Calculate the velocity of the water coming out if the cross sectional area of the
nozzle is 0.1 m2(Oct 2013) (Ans: v2 = 12 ms-1)
18. Water enters a pipe of diameter 3.0 cm with a velocity of 3.0 m/s. The water
encounters a constriction where its velocity is 12 m/s. (Apr 2009)
i) Find the volume flow rate of the water. (Ans: Q = 2.121 x 10-3 m3s-1)
ii) What is the diameter of the constricted portion of the pipe? (Ans: d = 0.015 m)
19. The diameter of the main water pipe that supplies water to a double storey house
is 4.00 cm. It supplies water at a rate of 500 cm 3/s. However, the diameter of the
pipe is reduce to 2.00 cm in the bathroom upstairs. Determine the speed of the
water flowing in the main pipe. (Ans: v1 = 3.978 x 10-1 ms-1)
20. An object has a weight of 8.80 N in air. It is suspended from a scale, which reads
7.40 N when it is submerged in hydraulic oil of density 950 kg/m3. (Acceleration due
to gravity =9.8 m/s2)
i) Determine the buoyant force on the object, (Ans: FB=1.40 N)
ii) What is the volume of the displaced oil? (Ans: V displaced = 1.5 x 10-4 m3)
iii) What is the density of the object? (Ans: = 5.971 x 102 kgm-3)
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