College of Engineering and Architecture

Department of Civil Engineering

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Instructor: ENGR. CARLOU D. ECHALICO

CE 316 HYDRAULICS

QUIZ NO. 2
Instructions:
➢ Write the given/req’d. and your solutions legibly and then box your final answer.
(Handwritten)
➢ Supply vivid graphical illustration if needed.
➢ Scanned copy your papers and submit the file in pdf format.
➢ File name: Last name, First name_QuizNo.
Ex. Dela Cruz, Juan_Quiz1
➢ Do not share your solutions with your classmates
➢ Late submissions will have a corresponding point deduction.

PROBLEM 1 (15pts)

A gage on the suction side of a pump shows a vacuum of 250 mm of mercury.

a) Compute the pressure head in meters of water.

b) Compute the pressure in kPa.
c) Compute the absolute pressure in kPa, if the barometer reads 725 mm of Mercury.

PROBLEM 2 (20pts)

The tank in the figure is 3 m. wide into the paper.

Neglecting atmospheric pressure, compute the
following. Use 9.79 kN/m3 as unit weight of water.

a) Horizontal force on the quarter-circle panel BC.

b) Vertical force on the quarter-circle panel BC.
c) Resultant force on the quarter-circle panel BC.
d) Angle that the resultant makes with the
horizontal.

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Department of Civil Engineering

PROBLEM 3 (15pts)

A triangle having a base of 1.20 m and altitude of 1.8 m

wholly immersed in water, its base being in the surface
and its plane vertical. If the triangle will be divided by a
horizontal line through its center of pressure.

a) Find the pressure on the lower area of the

triangle.
b) Find the pressure on the upper area of the
triangle.
c) Find the ratio between the pressures on the two
areas of the triangle.

PROBLEM 4 (15pts)

A square frame 3 m by 3 m in dimension is submerged

in water vertically with its top 3 m from the surface. If
oil (s = 0.80) occupies the top meter,

a) Determine the horizontal pressure acting on the

frame.
b) Determine the pressure at the top of the gate.
c) Determine the pressure at the bottom of the gate.

PROBLEM 5 (10pts)

A wooden spherical ball with sp.gr. of 0.42 and a diameter of 0.30 m. is dropped from a height of 4.2
m. above the surface of the water at the deep end of the swimming pool. If the ball barely touch the
bottom of the pool before it began to float, how deep is the pool at that point?

PROBLEM 6 (15pts)

For the dam retaining water as shown in Figure below, find (a) the factor of safety against sliding, (b)
the factor of safety against overturning, and (c) the pressure intensity on the base of the dam. The
foundation soil is permeable; assume hydrostatic uplift varies from full hydrostatic head at the heel of
the dam to zero at the toe and that the coefficient of friction between dam and foundation soil is 0.45.
The unit weight of the concrete is 23.5 kN/m3.

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Department of Civil Engineering

PROBLEM 7 (10pts)

For the open tank with piezometers attached on the side, contains two different liquids.

a) Find the pressure at the bottom of the tank.

b) Find the elevation of the liquid in piezometer B.

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