Practice Test: Question Set - 28
1. Flow occurring in a pipeline when a valve is being opened is
- (A) Steady
- (B) Unsteady
- (C) Laminar
- (D) Vortex
2. The water pressure per metre length on a vertical masonry wall of dam is (where w = Specific weight of the liquid, and H = Height of the liquid)
- (A) wH/2
- (B) wH
- (C) wH2/2
- (D) wH2/4
3. Euler's equation in the differential form for the motion of liquids is given by
- (A) dp/ρ
+ g.dz + v.dv = 0
- (B) dp/ρ - g.dz + v.dv = 0
- (C) ρ.dp + g.dz + v.dv = 0
- (D) ρ.dp - g.dz + v.dv = 0
4. An open tank containing liquid is made to move from rest with a uniform acceleration. The angle 0 which the free surface of liquid makes with the horizontal is such that (where a = Horizontal acceleration of the tank, and g = Acceleration due to gravity)
- (A) tanθ = a/g
- (B) tanθ =
2 a/g
- (C) tanθ = a/2g
- (D) tanθ = a2/2g
5. The discharge through a small rectangular orifice is given by (where Cd = Coefficient of discharge for the orifice, a = Cross-sectional area of the orifice, h = Height of the liquid above the centre of the orifice)
- (A) Q = Cd × a × 2gh
- (B) Q = (2/3).
Cd × a × h
- (C) Q = (Cd × a)/√(2gh)
- (D) Q = (3Cd × a)/√(2h)
6. When a body is placed over a liquid, it will float if
- (A) Gravitational
force is equal to the up-thrust of the liquid
- (B) Gravitational
force is less than the up-thrust of the liquid
- (C) Gravitational
force is more than the up-thrust of the liquid
- (D) None
of the above
7. A point, in a compressible flow where the velocity of fluid is zero, is called
- (A) Critical
point
- (B) Vena
contracta
- (C) Stagnation
point
- (D) None
of these
8. For very great pressures, viscosity of moss gases and liquids
- (A) Remain same
- (B) Increases
- (C) Decreases
- (D) Shows erratic behavior
9. A weir, generally, used as a spillway of a dam is
- (A) Narrow
crested weir
- (B) Broad
crested weir
- (C) Ogee weir
- (D) Submerged
weir
10. The angle of contact in case of a liquid depends upon
- (A) The nature of the liquid and the solid
- (B) The material which
exists above the free surface of the liquid
- (C) Both of die above
- (D) Any one of the above
11. A flow in which each liquid particle has a definite path, and the paths of individual particles do not cross each other, is called
- (A) Steady flow
- (B) Uniform flow
- (C) Streamline
flow
- (D) Turbulent
flow
12. The stability of a dam is checked for
- (A) Tension
at the base
- (B) Overturning
of the wall or dam
- (C) Sliding
of the wall or dam
- (D) All of these
13. Water is _________ liquid.
- (A) A
compressible
- (B) An
incompressible
- (C) Both A and B
- (D) None
of these
14. The unit of kinematic viscosity in S. I. units is
- (A) N-m/s
- (B) N-s/m2
- (C) m2/s
- (D) N-m
15. Bernoulli's equation is applied to
- (A) Venturimeter
- (B) Orifice
meter
- (C) Pitot tube
- (D) All of these
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