TEST

FLUIDS
Max. Time: 1:30 Hrs. MM: 70

(SECTION-A)

1. The height of a mercury barometer is 75 cm at sea level and 50 cm at the top of a hill. Ratio of
density of mercury to that of air is 104. The height of the hill is
(A) 250 m (B) 2.5 km (C) 1.25 km (D) 750 m
2. The three vessels shown in figure have same base area. Equal volumes of a liquid are poured in
the three vessels. The force on the base will be

(A) Maximum in vessel A (B) Maximum in vessel B

(C) Maximum in vessel C (D) Equal in all the vessels
3. Pressure at base of container due to ideal liquid of density  as shown

(A) gh (B) ghsin (C) ghcos (D) gh tan

4. The excess pressure inside one soap bubble is three times that inside a second soap bubble, then the
ratio of their surface areas is:
(A) 1 : 9 (B) 1 : 3 (C) 3 : 1 (D) 1 : 27
5. If h is the height of capillary rise and r be the radius of capillary tube, then which of the following
relations will be correct?
(A) hr = constant (B) h / r2 constant (C) hr2 = constant (D) h/r = constant
6. A body floats in water with one third of its volume above the surface of water. If it is placed in oil, it
floats with half of its volume above the surface of the oil. The specific gravity of the oil is:
(A) 5/3 (B) 4/3 (C) 3/2 (D) 1
7. A boat having a length 3m and breath 2m is floating on a lake. The boat sinks by 1 cm when a man
goes on it. The mass of the man is
(A) 60 kg (B) 72 kg (C) 12 kg (D) 128 kg
8. Work of 3.0 × 10–4 joule is required to be done in increasing the size of soap film from 10 cm × 6 cm
to 10 cm × 11 cm. The surface tension of the film is
(A) 5102 N / m (B) 310 2 N / m (C) 1.510 2 N / m (D) 1.2102 N / m

9. An object of relative density `2’ is released from rest in a liquid. The acceleration of object is
(A) 5 m/s2 (B) 2 m/s2 (C) 1 m/s2 (D) None of these
10. A U-tube containing a liquid is accelerated horizontally with a constant acceleration a. If the
separation between the two vertical limbs is l, then the difference in the heights of the liquid in the
two arms is
(A) Zero (B) l (C) la/g (D) lg/a
11. A capillary tube of radius r can support a liquid of weight 6.28 × 10 –4 N. If the surface tension of the
liquid is 5 × 10 –2 N/m. The radius of capillary must be cos   1
(A) 210 3 m (B ) 2104 m (C) 1.5103 m (D)12.5104 m
12. Two water pipes of diameters 2 cm and 4 cm are connected with the main supply line. The velocity
of flow of water in the pipe of 2 cm diameter is
(A) 4 times that in the other pipe (B) 1/4 times that in the other pipe
(C) 2 times that in the other pipe (D) 1/2 times that in the other pipe
13. An incompressible liquid flows through a horizontal tube as shown in the following fig. Then the
velocity v of the fluid is

(A) 3.0 m/s (B) 1.5 m/s (C) 1.0 m/s (D) 2.25 m/s
14. The force required to drag a circular flat of radius 5 cm on the surface of water is: (Surface tension of
water is 75 dyne/cm)
(A) 30 dyne (B) 60 dyne (C) 750 dyne (D) 750 π dyne
15. Radius of a soap bubble is ‘r’, surface tension of soap solution is T. Then without increasing the
temperature, how much energy will be needed to double its radius?
(A) 4r2T (B) 2r2T (C) 12r2T (D) 24r2T
 16. 8000 identical water drops are combined to form a big drop. Then the ratio of the final surface energy to the initial
surface energy of all the drops together is

(A) 1 : 10 (B) 1 : 15 (C) 1 : 20 (D) 1 : 25

17. A soap film is formed on a frame of area 4 × 10–3 m2. If the area of the film is reduced to half,
what is the change in its potential energy? Surface tension = 40 × 10–3 N/m.

(A) 32105 J (B) 16105 J (C) 810 5 J (D) 16103 J

18. Eight drops of the same radius are falling through air with a steady velocity of 5 cm per second.
If all the drops coalesce the terminal velocity will be

(A) 10 cm/sec (B) 5 cm/sec (C) 20 cm/sec (D) 40 cm/sec

19. A solid sphere of density  ( 1) times lighter than water is suspended in a water tank by a string tied
to its base as shown in fig. If the mass of the sphere is m then the tension in the string is given by

  1  mg
(A)   (B) mg (C) (D) ( – 1) mg
    1

20. A tank is filled with water up to a height H. Water is allowed to come out of a hole P in one of the
walls at a depth D below the surface of water. Express the horizontal distance x in terms of H and D

D( H  D)
(A) x  D( H  D) (B) x (C) x  2 D ( H  D) (D) x  4 D ( H  D)
2

21. Radius of one arm of hydraulic lift is four times of radius of other arm. What force should be applied
on the narrow arm to lift 100 kg?

(A) 26.5 N (B) 62.5 N (C) 6.25 N (D) 8.3 N

22. A soap film of surface tension 3  10–2 Nm–1 formed in a rectangular frame can support a light wire as
shown in figure. If g = 10 ms–2, the mass of wire is

(A) 0.006 gm (B) 0.06 gm (C) 0.3 gm (D) 0.6 gm

23. A block is suspended from a spring balance. When the block is in air the balance reads 120 N. When it
is immersed in water the reading changes to 80 N. The relative density of the material of the block is

(A) 6 (B) 3 (C) 2 (D) 3/2

24. If pressure at half the depth of a lake is equal to 2/3th of pressure at the bottom of the lake then what is
the depth of the lake

(A) 10 m (B) 20 m (C) 60 m (D) 30 m

25. A beaker of radius 6 cm is filled with mercury up to a height of 27 cm. Given that the density of
mercury is 13600 kg/m3 , the force exerted by the mercury on the bottom of the beaker is
approximately

(A) 1000 N (B) 1100 N (C) 1200 N (D) 1545 N

(SECTION-B)

26. A. What is the dimension of viscosity? (1 Mark)

B. What is stokes law? Derive an expression for the terminal velocity of the ball when it is released
in a liquid? (4 Marks)

27. A. Define Surface Tension. (2 Marks)

B. Derive the expression for the excess pressure inside a liquid drop of surface tension S and radius
R. (3 Marks)

28. What is Bernoulli's Theorem? Prove it. (5 Marks)

29. A. Write the formula for the Reynolds Number for the liquid flows in a cylinder. (2 Marks)

B. Derive the formula for the pressure difference between 2 points inside a liquid. (3 Marks)