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________________________________________________________________________________________ 1. Water has the surface tension of 0.4 N/ m. in a 3mm diameter vertical tube, if the liquid rises 6mm above the liquid outside the tube, calculate the wetting angle. a) 73. b) 83. c) 93. d) An oil of specific gravity 0.9 has viscosity of 0.28 stokes at C. what will be its viscosity of 0.28 stokes at C. what will be its viscosity in Ns/ ? a) 0.2520 b) 0.0311 c) 0.0252 d) 0.0206 The dimensions of surface tension is a) N/ b) J/m c) J/ d) W/m If a certain liquid has viscosity of 0.048 Poise and kinematic viscosity 3.5 stokes. What is its specific gravity a) 1.371 b) 1.271 c) 1.171 d) 0.97 A plate 0.0254 mm distant from a fixed plate moves at 61 cm/sec and requires a force of 0.2 kgf/ to maintain this speed. Dynamic viscosity of fluid is a) 8.328 b) 8.328 c) 8.328 d) None Stoke is the unit of a) Surface tension b) Dynamic viscosity c) Kinematic viscosity d) Density 7. The velocity field for flow is given by ( ) ( ) ( ) and the density varies as . In order that the mass is conserved, the value of should be (a) -12 (b) -10 (c) -8 (d) 10 A tank and a deflector are placed on a frictionless trolley. The tank issues water jet 3 (mass density of water = 1000 kg/m ), which strikes the deflector and truns by 45 . If the velocity of jet leaving the deflector is 4 m/s 3 and discharge is 0.1 m /s, the force recorded by the spring will be

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(a) 100 N (b) 100 N (c) 200 N (d) 200 N An aircraft is flying in level flight at a speed of 200 km/hr through air (density, = 1.2 kg/m2, and viscosity m = 1.6 x 10-5 N-s/m2). The lift co-efficient at this speed is 0.4 and the drag coefficient is 0.0065. The mass of the aircraft is 800 kg. The effective lift area of the aircraft is (a) 21.2 m2 (b) 10.6 m2 2 (c) 2.2 m (d) 1.1 A 30 cm diameter, 90 elbow has one limb vertical. Average velocity of flow of water through the elbow is 5 m/s and the pressure intensity is 4 kPa. The vertical component of force to keep the elbow in position will be a) 0.28 kN b) 1.49 kN c) 1.77 kN d) 2.05 kN An oil of viscosity 9 poise is flowing through a horizontal pipe of 60 mm diameter. If the flow is laminar, the pressure drop in 100 m length

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of the pipe is 1800 . The average velocity of flow of the oil is a) 2.25 m/s b) 0.55 m/s c) 5.5 m/s d) 22.5 m/s When a body moves through still water at a constant velocity of water at 0.8 m ahead of the nose of the body is 3.0 m/s. What will be the difference in pressure between the nose and the point 0.8 m ahead of it? a) 875 b) 1000 c) 1125 d) 1250 A thin smooth plate 1 m wide and 2 m long is towed through water at a velocity of 2 m/s. Assuming that boundary remains laminar, then drag on both sides of the plate is (kinematic viscocity = ) a) 5.3 N b) 26.6 N c) 53 N d) 72.5 N Oil ( ) is filled in the space between two parallel plates which are 18 mm apart. The upper plate is moving at a velocity of 4 m/s. What is the shear stress on the plate? a) 97.8 Pa b) 48.9 Pa c) 79.8 Pa d) 87.9 Pa For a turbulent boundary layer (under zero pressure gradient), the velocity profile is described by the one fifth power law. What is the ratio of displacement thickness to boundary layer thickness a) 1/7 b) 1/6 c) 1/5 d) A flat plate of 0.15 m^2 is pulled at 20 cm/s relative to another plate, fixed at a distance of 0.02 cm from it with a fluid having separating them. What is the power required to maintain the motion? a) 0.014 W b) 0.021 W c) 0.035 W d) 0.042 W A pitot static, with a coefficient of 0.98 is used to measure the velocity of water in a pipe. The stagnation pressure recorded is 3 m and the static pressure is 0.5 m. What is the velocity of flow? a) 7.2 m/s b) 6.8 m/s c) 5.9 m/s d) 5.2 m/s A flat plate with a sharp leading edge is placed along a free stream of fluid flow. Local Reynolds number at 3 cm from the leading

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edge is . What is the thickness of boundary layer? a) 0.47 mm b) 0.35 mm c) 0.23 mm d) 0.12 mm A pressure gauge reads 57.4 kPa and 80 kPa, respectively at heights of 8 m and 5 m fitted on the side of a tank filled with liquid. What is the approximate density of the liquid in ? a) 393 b) 768 c) 1179 d) 7530 In a 4 cm diameter pipeline carrying laminar flow of a liquid with = 1.6 centipoise, the velocity at the axis is 2 m/s. What is the shear stress midway between the wall and the axis? a) 0.01 b) 0.0125 c) 0.0175 d) 0.02 A 10 m high rocket containing liquid fuel of specific gravity 1.2 lifts off at an acceleration of 5 g. The pressure on the bottom plate of the rocket during lift off is a) 6.7 b) 7.2 c) 8.4 d) 8.9 In a fluid , the line of constant piezometric head passes through two points which have the same a) Elevation b) Pressure c) Velocity d) Velocity potential Shear velocity is a) A non -dimensional quantity b) The velocity of fluid at the edge of laminar sub layer c) A fictitious quantity d) The velocity of fluid at the edge of roughness element Which one of the following pressure units represents the LEAST pressure? a) Millibar b) Mm of Hg c) d) If the velocity profile in laminar flow is parabolic, then the shear stress profile must be a) A hyperbola b) A parabola c) A straight line d) An ellipse

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