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Indicate the answer choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
1. A hole is poked through the metal side of a drum holding water. The hole is 19 cm below the water surface.
What is the initial speed of outflow?
a. 1.9 m/s
b. 19.3 m/s
c. 0.6 m/s
d. 3.7 m/s
e. 1.4 m/s
2. A blimp is filled with 400 m3 of helium. How big a payload can the balloon lift? (The density of air is 1.29 kg/m3;
the density of helium is 0.18 kg/m3.)
a. 360 kg
b. 516 kg
c. 72 kg
d. 444 kg
e. 588 kg
3. Water (density = 1 × 103 kg/m3) flows at 10 m/s through a pipe with radius 0.025 m. The pipe goes up to the
second floor of the building, 2.5 m higher, and the pressure remains unchanged. What is the radius of the pipe on
the second floor?
a. 0.011 m
b. 0.03 m
c. 0.001 m
d. 0.187 m
e. 0.023 m
4. If the column of mercury in a barometer stands at 73.2 cm, what is the atmospheric pressure? (The density of
mercury is 13.6 × 103 kg/m3 and g = 9.80 m/s2)
a. 0.976 × 105 N/m2
b. 97.561 × 105 N/m2
c. 1.176 × 105 N/m2
d. 0.018 × 105 N/m2
e. 1.016 × 105 N/m2
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5. The Greenland ice sheet can be one km thick. Estimate the pressure underneath the ice. (The density of ice is
918 kg/m3.)
a. 9.0 × 105 Pa (9 atm)
b. 2.5 × 106 Pa (25 atm)
c. 4.5 × 106 Pa (45 atm)
d. 9.0 × 106 Pa (90 atm)
6. A block of wood has specific gravity 0.70. When placed in water, what percent of the volume of the wood is
above the surface?
a. 0, the block sinks.
b. 30%
c. 70%
d. 50%
e. 100%
7. What is the total force on the bottom of a 2.0-m-diameter by 2.0-m-deep round wading pool due to the weight of
the air and the weight of the water? (Note the pressure contribution from the atmosphere is 1.0 × 105 N/m2, the
density of water is 1 000 kg/m3, and g = 9.8 m/s2.)
a. 3.8 × 105 N
b. 15 × 106 N
c. 3.8 × 106 N
d. 5.3 × 106 N
e. 2.3 × 105 N
8. A piece of aluminum has density 2.70 g/cm3 and mass 751 g. The aluminum is submerged in a container of oil
(oil's density = 0.650 g/cm3). How much oil does the metal displace?
a. 278 cm3
b. 181 cm3
c. 428 cm3
d. 2 027.7 cm3
e. 3 120 cm3
9. The flow rate of a liquid through a 4.0-cm-radius pipe is 0.0070 m3/s. The average fluid speed in the pipe is:
a. 0.04 m/s.
b. 0.005 m/s.
c. 0.14 m/s.
d. 1.4 m/s.
e. 14 m/s.
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10. A solid object is made of two materials, one material having density of 2 000 kg/m3 and the other having density
of 5 000 kg/m3. If the object contains equal volumes of the materials, what is its average density?
a. 2 857 kg/m3
b. 3 500 kg/m3
c. 4 500 kg/m3
d. 7 000 kg/m3
e. more information is needed
11. An ideal fluid, of density 0.85 × 103 kg/m3, flows at 0.27 kg/s through a pipe of radius 0.018 m. What is the fluid
speed?
a. 3.09 m/s
b. 0.0028 m/s
c. 265.26 m/s
d. 0.31 m/s
e. 1.16 m/s
12. Water is being sprayed from a nozzle at the end of a garden hose of diameter 2.5 cm. If the nozzle has an
opening of diameter 1.0 cm, and if the water leaves the nozzle at a speed of 14 m/s, what is the speed of the
water inside the hose?
a. 2.24 m/s
b. 87.5 m/s
c. 0.01 m/s
d. 3.24 m/s
e. also 14 m/s
13. A fountain sends water to a height of 100 m. What must be the pressurization (above atmospheric) of the
underground water system? (1 atm = 105 N/m2)
a. 1 atm
b. 44.3 atm
c. 10.8 atm
d. 9.8 atm
e. 0.1 atm
14. Dams at two different locations are needed to form a lake. When the lake is filled, the water level will be at the
top of both dams. The Dam #2 is twice as high and twice as wide as Dam #1. How much greater is the force of
the water on Dam #2 than the force on Dam #1? (Ignore atmospheric pressure; it is pushing on both sides of the
dams.)
a. 2
b. 4
c. 8
d. 16
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15. Water is sent from a fire hose at 25 m/s at an angle of 30° above the horizontal. What is the maximum height
reached by the water?
a. 4 m
b. 8 m
c. 16 m
d. 156 m
e. 32 m
16. A stonecutter's chisel has an edge area of 0.45 cm2. If the chisel is struck with a force of 46 N, what is the
pressure exerted on the stone?
a. 1 022 Pa
b. 10 220 Pa
c. 102 200 Pa
d. 1 022 000 Pa
e. 511 000 Pa
17. The Garfield Thomas water tunnel at Pennsylvania State University has a circular cross-section that constricts
from a diameter of 3.6 m to the test section, which is 1.2 m in diameter. If the speed of flow is 4.0 m/s in the
large-diameter pipe, determine the speed of flow in the test section.
a. 0.4 m/s
b. 4 m/s
c. 36 m/s
d. 5 m/s
e. 38 m/s
18. In a large tank of liquid, the hydrostatic pressure at a given depth is a function of:
a. depth.
b. surface area.
c. liquid density.
d. Choices a and c are both valid.
19. A large stone is resting on the bottom of the swimming pool. The normal force of the bottom of the pool on the
stone is equal to the:
a. weight of the stone.
b. weight of the water displaced.
c. sum of the weight of the stone and the weight of the displaced water.
d. difference between the weight of the stone and the weight of the displaced water.
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20. A ping-pong ball has an average density of 0.0840 g/cm3 and a diameter of 3.80 cm. What force would be
required to keep the ball completely submerged under water?
a. 1.000 N
b. 0.788 N
c. 0.516 N
d. 0.258 N
21. An ice cube with a small solid steel sphere frozen inside floats in a glass of water filled to the brim. What
happens to the level of water in the glass as a result of the ice melting?
a. It goes up, overflowing.
b. It stays the same.
c. It goes down.
d. It depends on air pressure, thus the answer is indeterminate.
22. The pressure inside a commercial airliner is maintained at 1.00 atm (105 Pa). What is the net outward force
exerted on a 1.0 m × 2.0 m cabin door if the outside pressure is 0.30 atm?
a. 140 N
b. 1 400 N
c. 14 000 N
d. 140 000 N
23. By what factor is the total pressure greater at a depth of 890 m in water than at the surface where pressure is
one atmosphere? (water density = 1.0 × 103 kg/m3, 1 atmosphere pressure = 1.01 × 105 N/m2, and g = 9.8 m/s2)
a. 9
b. 86
c. 96
d. 76
e. 8 722
24. A heavily loaded boat is floating in a pond. The boat starts to sink because of a leak but quick action plugging the
leak stops the boat from going under although it is now deeper in the water. What happens to the surface level of
the pond?
a. It stays the same.
b. It goes up.
c. It goes down.
d. More information is needed to reach a conclusion.
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Answer Key
1. a
2. d
3. b
4. a
5. d
6. b
7. a
8. a
9. d
10. b
11. d
12. a
13. d
14. c
15. b
16. d
17. c
18. d
19. d
20. d
21. c
22. d
23. b
24. a
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