Civil Engineering Nov 2021
BASE UNITS, PROPERTIES OF FLUIDS, AND
UNIT PRESSURES
1. A certain type of jet fuel in a 1.25-m3 container
has a mass of 969 kg.
a. What is its mass density?
b. What is its specific weight?
c. What is its gravity force?
2. The closed tank is filled with water and is 5 m
long. The pressure gage on the tank reads 50
kPa. Determine:
a. the height, h, in the open water column.
b. the gage pressure acting on the bottom
tank surface AB.
c. the absolute pressure of the air in the top
of the tank.
3. The pressure gage in a given tank reads 134
mm Hg. Calculate the equivalent height of
column of oil.
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4. Determine the gage pressure at A in the given
open-type manometer.
5. Assuming oil in the differential-type
manometer shown, calculate the difference in
pressures between A and B.
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6. A 3-mm Ø tube is inserted in mercury and
later in water.
a. Assuming the tube is clean so that its
angle of contact with water is 0° and the
surface tension is 0.0728 N/m, what is
the amount of rise?
b. Assuming the tube is clean so that its
angle of contact with mercury is 140° and
the surface tension is 0.5140 N/m, what
is the amount of depression.
7. Chlorine gas at 30°C is under a pressure of 481
kPa. Assume a gas constant of 117 N-m/kg-K.
Calculate its specific volume.
PROBLEMS FOR PRACTICE:
8. Calculate the density, specific weight, and
specific volume of chlorine gas at 25°C and
pressure of 600,000 N/m2 abs.
R = 118 N-m/kg-K
9. What minimum diameter of glass tube is
necessary to keep the capillary-height change
of water less than 2 mm? Use σ = 0.0712 N/m
10. Distilled water stands in a glass tube of 9 –
mm diameter at a height of 24.0 mm. What is
the true static height? Use σ = 0.0742 N/m
11. A weather report indicates the barometric
pressure is 756 mm of mercury. What is the
atmospheric pressure in kPa?
12. If the atmospheric pressure is 0.9 bar abs and
a gage attached to a tank reads 390 mm Hg
vacuum, what is the absolute pressure within
the tank?
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16. A manometer is attached to a tank containing 18. Determine the pressure of the gas in the bulb
13. The tube shown is filled with oil. Determine three different fluids as shown. What will be shown in figure.
the pressure heads at A and B in meters of the difference in elevation (y) of the mercury
water. column in the manometer?

14. Calculate the pressure, in kPa, at A, B, C, and

D.

17. A manometer is attached to a pipe containing

oil as shown. Calculate the pressure at point
A.
8) 17.1 kg/m3
167.4 N/m3
0.059 m3/kg
9) 14.5 mm
10) 20.6 mm
11) 100.9 kPa
15. Determine the heights of columns of water, 12) 38 kPa
13) -2.38 m H2O
kerosene (sg = 0.82), and nectar (sg = 2.94) -0.51 m H2O
equivalent to 277 mm Hg. 14) -7.848 kPa
4.905 kPa
4.905 kPa
21.680 kPa
15) 3.77 m
4.59 m
1.28 m
16) 0.63 m
17) 13.05 kPa
18) 52.4 kPa

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