PROBLEM SET 1

NES 127-EE1
SUBMISSION IS ON AUG 10, 2019

1. The specific weight of water at ordinary pressure and temperature is 62.4 lb/ft^3. The
specific gravity of mercury is 13.56. Compute the density of water and the specific weight
and density of mercury.
Ans. 1.938 slugs/ft^3, 846 lb/ft^3, 26.3/ft^3
2. A certain gas weighs 16.0 N/m^3 at a certain temperature and pressure. What are the
values of its density, specific volume and specific gravity relative to air weighing 12.0
N/m^^3
3. The volume of a rock is found to be 0.00015 𝑚3 . If the rock's specific gravity is 2.60, what
is its weight?
Ans. 3.82N
4. If an object has a mass of 2.0 slugs at sea level, what would its mass be at a location
where the acceleration due to gravity is 30.00 ft/s^2?

5. Determine the weight of a 5-slug boulder at a place where the acceleration due to gravity
is 31.7 ft/s^2.
Ans. ( 158 lb )
6. If 200 ft^3 of oil weighs 10 520 lb, calculate its specific weight, density, and specific
gravity.

7. A certain gasoline weighs 46.5 lb/𝑓𝑡 3 . What are its mass density, specific volume, and
specific gravity?
Ans. 1.44slugs/ft^3,0.694 ft/slug, 0.742
8. A plate separated by 0.5mm from a fixed plate moves at 0.5 m/s under a force per unit
area of 4N/m2. Determine the viscosity of the fluid between the plates.

9. Determine the viscosity of fluid between shaft and sleeve in figure shown below.
Ans. 0.0212 lb.s/ft2

10. A small drop of water 80℉ is in contact with the air and has a diameter of 0.0200 in. if
the pressure within the droplet is 0.082 psi greater than the atmosphere, what is the
value of the surface tension?

11. Estimate the height to which water at 70℉ will rise in a capillarity tube of diameter of
0.120 in.
Ans. 0.0321 ft or 0.385 in

12. A glass tube is inserted in mercury; the common temperature is 20℃. What is the upward
force on the glass as a result of surface effects?
13. A steel ( 7850-kg/m3) shaft 40.0 mm in diameter and 350 mm long falls of its own weight
inside a vertical open tube 40.2 mm in diameter. The clearance, assumed uniform, is a
film of SAE 30 oil at 20℃. What speed will the cylinder ultimately reach?
Ans. 0.1750 m/s

14. Nutrients dissolved in water are carried to upper parts

of plants by tiny tubes partly because of the capillary
effect as shown below. Determine how high the water
solution will rise in a tree in a 0.0026 mm diameter tube
as a result of the capillary effect. Treat the solution as
water at 20°C with a contact angle of 15°.

15. A rigid steel container is partially filled with a liquid at

15 atm. The volume of the liquid is 1.23200 L. At a
pressure of 30atm, the volume of the liquid is 1.23100 L.
Find the average bulk modulus of elasticity of the liquid
over the given range of pressure if the temperature after
compression is allowed to return to its initial value.
What is the coefficient of compressibility (𝛽)?
Ans. 0.534GPA-1
 UNIVERSITY OF THE EAST
COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT

Problem Set No. 1

“PROPERTIES OF FLUIDS”

NES 127-1T Date of Submission

FLUID MECHANICS

Name
Student No.
Engr. Geraldine B. Tualla
INSTRUCTOR