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This document contains 9 practice problems related to fluid mechanics and its applications. The problems cover topics such as calculating shear stress in fluids, determining the force required to drag a block over an oil film of a given thickness, finding pressure at different points in tanks containing fluids, relating fluid pressure and height, determining fluid viscosity from shear experiments, and calculating fluid levels in manometers.

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This document contains 9 practice problems related to fluid mechanics and its applications. The problems cover topics such as calculating shear stress in fluids, determining the force required to drag a block over an oil film of a given thickness, finding pressure at different points in tanks containing fluids, relating fluid pressure and height, determining fluid viscosity from shear experiments, and calculating fluid levels in manometers.

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CHE211A: Fluid Mechanics and its applications

Practice problems collected from different sources

1. SAE 30 oil at 20 °C is sheared between two parallel plates 0.005 inch apart with the
lower plate fixed and the upper plate moving at 13 ft/s. Compute the shear stress in the oil.
(Viscosity of SAE 30 oil is 9.20 × 10-3 lb-s/ft2)
2. A 35cm × 55cm block slides on oil (µ = 0.81 Pa s) over a large plane surface. What
force is required to drag the block at 3 m/s, if the separating oil film is 0.6 mm thick?
3. For the vessel containing glycerin under pressure as shown below, find the pressure at
the bottom of the tank. (Mass density of glycerin is 1258 kg/m3)

4. The pressure intensity at a point in a fluid is given as 8 N/cm2. Find the corresponding
height of fluid when it is a) Water and b) An oil of specific gravity 0.8
5. A plate separated by 0.5 mm from a fixed plate moves at 0.50 m/s under a force per
unit area of 4 N/m2. Determine the viscosity of fluid between the plates.
6. If h = 25.5 in, determine the pressure at A. The liquid has a specific gravity of 1.85.

7. Fluid 2 is carbon tetrachloride and fluid 1 is benzene. If Patm = 101.5 kPa, determine
the absolute pressure at point A. (specific weight of carbon tetrachloride is 15.57 kN/m3 and
specific weight of benzene is 8.62 kN/m3)
8. A manometer is attached to a water tank, as shown below. Find the height of the free water
surface above the bottom of the tank.

9. Calculate the level h of the oil in the right-hand tube. Both tubes are open to the
atmosphere.

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