GALVEZ, Djonrae Nario

BSCE 4A

FLUID MECHANICS

MODULE 1

Practice Problems

1. A reservoir of glycerin (glyc) has a mass of 1200 kg and a volume of 0.952 m3. Find the glycerin’s (a)
weight W, (b) mass density 𝜌, (c) specific weight 𝛾, (d) specific gravity SG.

2. The specific gravity of ethyl alcohol is 0.79. Calculate its specific weight (in both pounds per cubic
foot and kilo newtons per cubic meter) and mass density (in both slugs per cubic foot and kilogram
per cubic meter).
3. One cubic foot of glycerin has a mass of 2.44 slugs. Find its specific weight on both pounds per cubic
foot and kilonewtons per cubic meter.

4. If the tank with a volume of 2094 cubic inches holds 30.5kg of salad oil, what is the density of the
oil?

5. A pressure gage at elevation 8 at the side of a tank containing a liquid reads 80 kPa. Another gage at
elevation 3 reads 120 kPa. Compute for the (a) specific weight, (b) density, (c) specific gravity.
6. A tank contains oil SG = 0.80, gasoline SG = 0.90 and sea water SG = 1.03. If the depths of the liquids
are 0.5 m, 0.8 m, and 1 m for oil, gasoline and sea water respectively.
(a) Find the pressure at the depth of 1.2 m.
(b) Find the pressure at the depth of 1.8 m.
(c) Find the pressure at the bottom of the tank.

7. Compute the following:

(a) Gage pressure of a gas having an absolute pressure of 40 psia and atmospheric pressure of 846
mbar abs in kPa.
(b) Gage pressure in bar.
(c) Gage pressure in psi.
8. If the atmospheric pressure is 101.3 kPa and the absolute pressure at
the bottom of the tank as shown in Fig. A is 231.3 kPa.
(a) What is the specific gravity of the olive oil?
(b) What is the absolute pressure at the interface of the olive oil and
the mercury?
(c) What is the gage pressure at the interface of the olive oil and the
mercury?
9. The water in a tank is pressurized by air, and the pressure is measured by a
multifluid manometer as shown in Fig. B. The tank is located on a mountain at
an altitude of 1400 m where the atmospheric pressure is 85.6 kPa. Determine
the air pressure in the tank if h1 = 0.1 m, h2 = 0.2 m, and h3 = 0.35 m. Take the
densities of water, oil, and mercury to be 1000 kg/m3, 850 kg/m3, and 13,600
kg/m3, respectively. (The air pressure in the tank is uniform, i.e., its variation
with elevation is negligible due to its low density, and thus we can determine
the pressure at the air–water interface).

10. A multifluid container is connected to a U-tube, as shown in Fig. C.

For the given specific gravities and fluid column heights, determine
(a) the gage pressure at A and (b) the height of a mercury column
that would create the same pressure at A.