GLA UNIVERSITY

Topic: Properties of fluids

Assignment No: 1
Que. (1): If the specific weight of a liquid is 8 kN/ m3, what is its mass density?
(Ans: 815.5 kg/m3)
Que. (2): If specific gravity of a liquid is 0.8, make calculations for its mass density, specific
volume, and specific weight. (Ans: 800 kg/m3; 1.25 X 10-3; 7848 N/m3)
Que. (3): Calculate the specific weight, specific mass, and specific gravity of a liquid having
a volume as 4 m3 and weighing 30 kN. (Ans: 7500 N/m3; 764.53 kg/m3; 0.76)
Que. (4): One liter of petrol weighs 7.02 N. Calculate the specific weight, density, specific
volume and relative density. (Ans: 7.02 kN/m3; 716 kg/m3; 1.395 X 10-3 m3/kg; 0.716)
Que. (5): Air is kept at a pressure of 200kPa and a temperature of 300C in a 500L container.
What is the mass of the air? (Ans: 1.15 kg)
Que. (6): Carbon tetrachloride at 200C has a viscosity of 0.000967 N.s/m2. What shear stress
is required to deform this fluid at a strain rate of 5000 s-1? (Ans: 4.84 Pa)
Que. (7): A plate 0.5 mm distant from a fixed plate moves at 0.25 m/s and requires a force
per unit area of 2.0 Pa to maintain this speed. Determine the viscosity of the fluid between the
plates. (Ans: 0.00400 Ns/m2)
Que. (8): Two horizontal flat plates are placed 0.15mm apart and the space between them is
filled with an oil of viscosity 1poise. The upper plate of area 1.5m2 is required to move with a
speed of 0.5m/sec relative to the lower plate. Determine the necessary force and power
required to maintain this speed. (Ans: 500 N: 0.25 kW)
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Que. (9): The velocity distribution over a plate is given by, u y y 2 where, u is the velocity
in meters per second at a distance y meter above the plate. Determine the shear stress at y=0
and y=0.2m. Take 8.4 Poise.
(Ans: 0.63 N/m2; 0.294 N/m2)
Que. (10): The specific gravity of water at 200C is 0.998 and its viscosity is 0.001008
N.s/m2. Find its kinematic viscosity. (Ans: 1.009 X 10-6 m2/s)
Que. (11): An increase in pressure of a liquid from 7.5MPa to 15MPa results into 0.2 %
decrease in its volume. Determine the bulk modulus of elasticity and coefficient of
compressibility of a liquid. (Ans: 3.75 X 109 N/m2; 0.267 X 10-9 m2/N)
Que. (12): A 20 mm wide gap between two vertical plane surfaces is filled with an oil of
specific gravity 0.85 and dynamic viscosity 2.5 N s/m2. A metal plate 1.25m x 1.25m x 0.2cm
thick and weighing 30 N is placed midway in the gap. Find the force if the plate is to be lifted
up with a constant velocity of 0.12 m/sec. (Ans: 134.17 N)
Que. (13): A square plate of size 1m x 1m and weighing 392.4N slides down an inclined
plane with a uniform velocity of 0.2m/s as shown in the figure below. The inclined plane is
laid on a slope of 5 vertical to 12 horizontal and has an oil film of 1mm thickness. Calculate
the dynamic viscosity of oil. (Ans: 0.755 Ns/m2)
Que. (14): Calculate the work done in blowing a soap bubble of diameter 12 cm. assume the
surface tension of soap solution=0.04 N/m. (Ans: 36.2 X 10-4 N.m)
Que. (15): When the pressure on a given mass of liquid is increased from 3.0MPa to 3.5MPa,
the density of the liquid increases from 500kg/m3 to 501kg/m3.what is the average value of
bulk modulus of the liquid over the given pressure range. (ESE-2006)
(Ans: 250MPa)
Que. (16): If the surface tension of water-air interface is 0.073N/m, what will be the gauge
pressure inside a rain drop of 1 mm diameter? (ESE-2001)
(Ans: 292 N/m2)
Que. (17): Find the capillary rise at 20C in clean glass tube of 1 mm diameter containing
water. (ESE-2001)

(Ans: 30mm)
Que. (18): When a flat plate of 0.1 m2 area is pulled at a constant velocity of 30cm/s parallel
to another stationary plate located at a distance 0.01 cm from it and the space in between is
filled with a fluid of dynamic viscosity=0.001 Ns/m2. Find the force required to be applied.
(IAS-2004)
(Ans: 0.3N)
Que. (19): An incompressible fluid (kinematic viscosity, 7.410-7 m2/s, specific gravity,
0.88) is held between two parallel plates. If the top plate is moved with a velocity of 0.5 m/s
while the bottom one is held stationary, the fluid attains a linear velocity profile in the gap of
0.5 mm between these plates. Find the shear stress in Pascals on the surfaces of top plate.
(GATE-2004)
(Ans: 0.651 Pa)
Que. (20): When the pressure of a liquid increased from 2MPa to 5MPa and the
corresponding decrease in volume is found to be 0.1 %. Determine bulk modulus of elasticity
of the fluid. (Ans: 3109 Pa)