- If a uniform solid body weighs 50 N in air and 30 N in

water, its specific gravity is:

a- 1.50 b- 1.67 c- 2.50 d- 3.00
- Two parallel plates, one moving at 4 m/s and the
other stationary, are separated by a 5 mm thick layer
of oil with a specific gravity of 0.80 and kinematic
viscosity 1.25 104m2/s. What is the average shear
stress in the oil?
a- 80 Pa b- 100 Pa c- 125 Pa d- 160 Pa
- Tank of water SG=1.0- has a 5m high and a 3m
wide gate in its vertical wall. The top edge of this
gate is 2m below the water surface. What is the
hydrostatic force acting on this gate?
a- 147 kN b- 367 kN c- 490 kN d- 661 kN
-A oil has a kinematic viscosity of 1.25 104 m2/s
and a specific gravity of 0.8. What is the dynamic
viscosity?
(a) 0.08 kg/(ms) (b) 0.10 kg/(ms) (c) 0.125 kg/(ms)
(d) 1.0 kg/(ms)
-Only possible dimensionless group that combines
heat transfer coef. h=Q/(AT), density, , specific
heat, cp, and velocity, V is:
(a) V/(hcp) (b) cp/(hV)(c)(cph)/V (d)h/(cpV)
-A 4-cm-diameter jet is supplied water from a 7-cmdiameter pipe at a rate of 160 gallons per minute.
When the atmospheric pressure is 101kPa, what is the
average velocity in the water supply line?
(a) 0.81 m/s (b) 1.62 m/s (c) 2.62 m/s (d) 23 m/s
-A water jet with a 0.03 m diameter produces a force
of 23 N when it strikes the plate shown in the figure.
What is the average velocity of the water in the jet?
(a) 2.85 m/s (b) 5.7 m/s (c) 8.1 m/s (d) 23 m/s
- A student fills a 45 gallon drum in 2.25 minutes
with water at 20C using a garden hose. What is the
weight flow rate through this garden hose?
(a) 1.2 N/s (b) 1.6 N/s (c) 12 N/s (d) 16 N/s
- Forces acting on a fluid element at rest are:
(a) shear and normal forces (b) gravity and shear
forces (c) gravity, shear and normal forces (d)
gravity and normal forces
- The only possible dimensionless group that
combines density, , velocity, u, length, L, and
surface tension, , is?
(a) ( 2uL)/2 (b) (2 )/(uL) (c) (L)/u 2 (d)
(u2L)/

-In solid mechanics, stress is proportional to the strain. In fluid

mechanics stress is proportional to the strain rate.
-Gases can not form a free surface.
-In a perfect gas, the pressure, density and temperature are related
by the equation p = RT .
-The magnitude of the force acting on a submerged body equals
the pressure at the centroid of the body times the area of the body.
-In liquids with constant density, , the hydrostatic equation can be
written as dp = gdz.
-Control volumes may be fixed, moving or deformable.
-A control volume usually wants to have its surfaces either parallel
or perpendicular to the velocity vector.
-In one-dimensional flow, the flow parameters are uniform across
the inlet and exit of a control volume.
-A stream line is a curve that is instantaneously tangent to the
velocity vector of the flow.
-Suppose an ice-cube is floating in a glass of water with the
resulting water-level at the brim of the glass. When the ice melts,
the level of water will stay right at the brim of the glass.
-All fluids are compressible
-Specific weight is the weight per unit volume
-For steady flow: streamline = pathline = streakline
-A process with constant entropy is called isentropic
-In Lagrangian descriptions of fluid flows, one isolates a particle,
determines the force on it and calculates its trajectory
-A calorically perfect gas is a gas that is thermally perfect and for
which the specific heats are constant with temperature
-Both Venus and Mars have toxic atmospheres

-In the troposphere, the pressure decreases linearly with the

altitude.
-For a given problem, there may be several different control
volumes that must be used to solve the problem.
-The flux of a quantity, B, is the amount of the quantity B
contained in the control volume.
-A perfect gas has no viscosity.
-The magnitude of the force acting on a submerged body equals
the pressure at the centroid of the body times
the volume of the body.
- If the flow field is steady, the total derivative of the density mus
be zero.
-Dimensional homogeneity means that all of the parameters in
an equation must be expressed in either the SI or the English
system.
-The flux of mass through a tube is the amount of mass passing
through the tube integrated over time.
-Ketchup and corn-starch/water solutions are examples of
Newtonian fluids.
-The pressure at a stagnation point is typically lower than in the
free stream.
-A Pitot tube is a density measurement device that is used to
measure fluid flow velocity.
-For steady flow through a pipe, the mass flow and volume flow
are conserved
-Gage pressure is always positive
-For submerged bodies, the resultant pressure force acts through
the centroid of the body
-Viscosity is mainly dependent on pressure
-The Bernoulli equation is valid inside boundary layers