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This document contains 9 homework problems related to fluid mechanics. The problems cover topics like determining hydrostatic forces on surfaces submerged in water, calculating the minimum force required to keep a gate closed, and finding the maximum load a boat can carry without sinking. The document also specifies that answers can be provided in either Chinese or English.

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Homework 2

This document contains 9 homework problems related to fluid mechanics. The problems cover topics like determining hydrostatic forces on surfaces submerged in water, calculating the minimum force required to keep a gate closed, and finding the maximum load a boat can carry without sinking. The document also specifies that answers can be provided in either Chinese or English.

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NTU ESOE 2006 – Fluid Mechanics – 2023 Fall – Homework#2

所有作業及考試以中文或英文作答皆可

1. Consider a 8-m-long, 8-m-wide, and 2-m-high aboveground swimming pool that is filled
with water to the rim. (a) Determine the hydrostatic force on each wall and the distance
of the line of action of this force from the ground. (b) If the height of the walls of the pool
is doubled and the pool is filled, will the hydrostatic force on each wall double or
quadruple?
2. Consider a heavy car submerged in water in a lake with a flat bottom. The driver’s side
door of the car is 1.1 m high and 0.9 m wide, and the top edge of the door is 10 m below
the water surface. Determine the net force acting on the door (normal to its surface) and
the location of the pressure center if (a) the car is well-sealed and it contains air at
atmospheric pressure and (b) the car is filled with water.
3. A room in the lower level of a cruise ship has a 40-cm-diameter circular window. If the
midpoint of the window is 2 m below the water surface, determine the hydrostatic force
acting on the window, and the pressure center. Take the specific gravity of seawater to
be 1.025.

4. A 6-m-high, 5-m-wide rectangular plate blocks the end of a 5-m-deep freshwater


channel, as shown below. The plate is hinged about a horizontal axis along its upper
edge through a point A and is restrained from opening by a fixed ridge at point B.
Determine the force exerted on the plate by the ridge.
5. The curved surface given in the figure is defined by y = 3√𝑥. Determine the horizontal
force and its line of action applied by water on the curved surface. The width of the gate
is b = 2 m.

6. A 4-m-long quarter-circular gate of radius 3 m and of negligible weight is hinged about its
upper edge A, as shown below. The gate controls the flow of water over the ledge at B,
where the gate is pressed by a spring. Determine the minimum spring force required to
keep the gate closed when the water level rises to A at the upper edge of the gate.

7. The hull of a boat has a volume of 180 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.
8. The density of a liquid is to be determined by an old 1-cm-diameter cylindrical
hydrometer whose division marks are completely wiped out. The hydrometer is first
dropped in water, and the water level is marked. The hydrometer is then dropped into the
other liquid, and it is observed that the mark for water has risen 0.3 cm above the liquid–
air interface. If the height of the original water mark is 12.3 cm, determine the density of
the liquid.
9. A cone floats in the glycerin (SG = 1.26), as shown in the figure. Find the mass of the
cone.

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