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This document provides 15 mechanics of fluids problems with accompanying figures. The problems cover topics like forces on structures, buoyancy, pressure, and stability. Readers are instructed to show their work and box their final answers. The problems are part of a compilation intended for a bachelor's degree in civil engineering.

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Booklet (Printable) PDF

This document provides 15 mechanics of fluids problems with accompanying figures. The problems cover topics like forces on structures, buoyancy, pressure, and stability. Readers are instructed to show their work and box their final answers. The problems are part of a compilation intended for a bachelor's degree in civil engineering.

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Instructions: Analyze and answer each of the following problems.

Show your complete solutions with NO


ERASURES. Box your final answer/s. (Please see the announcement posted on the Stream in compiling these
problems.)
CAMARINES NORTE STATE COLLEGE
1. Determine the resultant force acting on the 0.7m-high and 0.7m-wide triangular gate shown in Fig. 1, and
COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING its line of action.

COMPILATION OF PROBLEMS WITH SOLUTIONS

MECHANICS OF FLUIDS (LECTURE)

CE 3a

IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS IN

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN CIVIL ENGINEERING

VIERNES, MARBEN L.

January 2021
2. A solid brass sphere of 30-cm diameter is used to hold a cylindrical buoy in place (as shown in Fig. 2) in 3. A gate having the cross section shown in Fig. 3 closes an opening 5ft-wide and 4ft-high in a water reservoir.
seawater (SG = 1.03). The buoy (SG = 0.45) has a height of 2m and is tied to the sphere at one end. What The gate weighs 500lbs and its center of gravity is 1ft to the left of AC and 2ft above BC. Determine the
rise in tide, h, will be required to lift the sphere off the bottom? horizontal reaction that is developed on the gate at C.
4. From the Fig. 4, gage A reads 350 kPa absolute. Determine the absolute pressure in gage B 5. A metal block 30cm-square and 25cm-deep is floated on a body of liquid which consists of 20cm layer of
water above the layer of mercury. The block weighs 18,840 N/m3 . If a downward vertical force 1,100N is
applied to the center of this block, determine the location of the top edge of metal block before and after
the vertical force applied. See Fig.
6. A gravity dam, as shown in Fig. 6, has a top width of 20m, a bottom width of 100m, and is 100m high. 7. Two water tanks are connected to each other through a mercury manometer with inclined tubes, as shown
Determine the factor of safety against sliding and overturning moment if μ = 0.45. in Fig. 7. If the pressure difference between the two tanks is 20kPa, determine the value of θ.
8. A flat bottom scow, weighing 227,400 kg has a vertical sides and straight sloping ends. The length on deck 9. The tank of water in Fig. 9 accelerates uniformly by freely rolling down a 30° incline. If the wheels are
is 25m and on the bottom is 20m. The width is 6m and its vertical depth is 3.70m. Determine the metacentric frictionless, what is the angle θ?
height of this scow shown in Fig.8 when sailing on sea water.
10. The drum 2m-high is filled to the top with oil and placed on the platform. Determine the pressure the oil 11. . The water in a tank is pressurized by air, and the pressure is measured by a multifluid manometer as shown
will exert on the cap at A if the maximum pressure at the bottom of the dam is 80kPa. Take ρoil = 900 kg/m3 in Fig.11. Determine the gage pressure of air in the tank if h1 = 0.4m, h2 = 0.6m, and h3 = 0.8m. Take the
. See Fig. 10. densities of water, oil, and mercury to be 1000 kg/m3 , 850 kg/m3 , and 13 600 kg/m3 , respectively.
12. Water backs up behind a concrete dam as shown in Fig. 12. Leakage under the foundation gives a pressure 13. . A closed cylinder of radius 10cm, height of 30cm is filled water. If the cylinder is rotated about its vertical
distribution under the dam as indicated. If the water depth, h, is too great, the dam will topple over about axis at speed of 260rpm, determine the force exerted at the bottom covers of the cylinder. See Fig. 13.
its toe (point A). For the dimensions given, determine the factor of safety against overturning moment if L
= 120ft and h = 50ft. Base your analysis on a unit length of the dam. The specific weight of the concrete is
150 lb/ft3 .
14. The open rail car is 6ft wide and filled with water to the level shown in Fig. 14. Determine the change in 15. The cylinder has a diameter of 75mm and a mass of 600g. If it is placed in the tank, which contains oil and
pressure that acts at point B when the car is at rest and then moving with a constant acceleration of 10 ft/s water, determine the metacentric height at which it will float if maintained in the vertical position and the
2 . How much water spills out of the car? angle of tilt is equal to 10°. Take ρoil = 840 kg/m3 . See Fig.15.

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