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This document contains the solutions to homework problems about mechanics of fluids. It addresses topics like determining whether cylinders will float vertically or horizontally based on their material densities, diameters, and lengths. It also covers problems involving specific weights and buoyant forces acting on partially submerged objects like logs, ice blocks, and boats. The solutions provide numerical values for quantities like specific weights, depths of submersion, and maximum carrying capacities.

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HWK 5 Solution PDF

This document contains the solutions to homework problems about mechanics of fluids. It addresses topics like determining whether cylinders will float vertically or horizontally based on their material densities, diameters, and lengths. It also covers problems involving specific weights and buoyant forces acting on partially submerged objects like logs, ice blocks, and boats. The solutions provide numerical values for quantities like specific weights, depths of submersion, and maximum carrying capacities.

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Faculty of Mechanical Engineering

Universiti Teknologi Malaysia


SME 1313 – Mechanics of Fluids I: Second Semester 2010

HOMEWORK 5
Solution

5-1 A 0.25 m diameter cylinder is 0.25 m long and composed of 5-2 Consider a wooden cylinder (SG = 0.6) 1 m in diameter and
material with specific weight 8000 N/m3. Will it float in water 0.8 m long. Would this cylinder be stable if placed to float
with the ends horizontal. [Ans: No] with its axis vertical in oil (SG = 0.8)?

Mohd Zubil Bahak @2011 1


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Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

5-3 A cylindrical can 76 mm in diameter and 152 mm high, 5-5 The cylinder shown is the diagram is made from uniform
weighing 1.11 N, contains water to depth of 76 mm. When material. What is its specific weight if the diameter of the
this can is placed in water, how deep will it sink? cylinder is 450 mm?

600 mm 750 mm

SG = 0.823

5-4 A cylindrical log has diameter of 450 mm and length of 6.75


m. When the log is floating in fresh water with its long axis
horizontal, 110 mm of its diameter is above the surface.
What is the specific weight of the wood in the log?

Mohd Zubil Bahak @2011 2


[email protected]
Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

5-6 The homogeneous timber AB as shown in the diagram is 0.15 5-7 Consider a large cubic ice block floating in seawater. The
m × 0.35 m in cross section. Determine the specific weight specific gravities of the ice and seawater are 0.92 and 1.025,
of the timber and the tension in the rope. respectively. If a 10 cm high portion of the ice block extends
above the surface of the water, determine the height of the
ice block below the surface. [Ans: 87.6 cm]

5-8 The hull of a boat has a volume of 150 m3, and the total mass
of the boat when empty is 8560 kg. Determine how much
load this boat can carry without sinking (a) in a lake and (b) in
seawater with a specific gravity of 1.03.

Mohd Zubil Bahak @2011 3


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