BAUZON, MARIA KATRINA

CE 414: INTEGRATION COURSE FOR CIVIL

ENGINEERING 2
SECTION: CES41S1
4. A liter of water weighs about 9.75 N.
Compute its mass in kilograms.

1. What is the weight of a 45-kg boulder if it

is brought to a place where the
acceleration due to gravity is 395 m/s per
minute?

5. The specific gravity of certain oil is 0.82.

Calculate its (a) specific weight, in 1b/ft3
and KN/m3, and (b) mass density in
slugs/ft3 and kg/ m3.

2. If the specific volume of a certain gas is

0.7848 m3/kg, what is its specific weight?

6. What is the specific weight of air at 480

kPa absolute and 21°C?

3. If an object has a mass of 22 kg at sea

level, (a) what will be its weight at a
point where the acceleration due to gravity
g = 9.75 m/s2? (b) What will be its
mass at that point?
7. At 32°C and 205 kPa gage, the specific
weight of a certain gas was 13.7 N/m3.
Determine the gas constant of this gas.
 11. A liquid compressed in a container has a
volume of 1 liter at a pressure of 1 MPa and
a volume of 0.995 liter at a pressure of 2
MPa. The bulk modulus of elasticity (Es) of
the liquid is:

8. Air is kept at a pressure of 200 kPa

absolute and a temperature of 30°C in a
500-liter container. What is the mass of
air?

12. Water in a hydraulic press, initially at 137

kPa absolute, is subjected to a pressure of
116,280 kPa absolute. Using Es = 2.5 GPa,
determine the percentage decrease in the
volume of water.

9. A cylindrical tank 80 cm in diameter and 90

cm high is filled with a liquid. The tank and
the liquid weighed 420 kg. The weight of
the empty tank is 40 kg. What is the unit
weight of the liquid in KN/m3.

13. Estimate the height to which water will rise

in a capillary tube of diameter 3 mm. Use o
= 0.0728 N/m and y = 9810 N/ m for water

10. A lead cube has a total mass of 80 kg.

What is the length of its side? Sp. gr. of
lead = 11.3.
14. Estimate the capillary depression for 17. Distilled water stands in a glass tube of 9
mercury in a glass capillary tube 2 mm in mm diameter at a height of 24 mm. What is
diameter. Use o = 0.514 N/m and 0 = 140°. the true static height? Use o = 0.0742 N/m.

15. What is the value of the surface tension of 18. If a depth of liquid of 1 m causes a
a small drop of water 0.3 mm in diameter pressure of 7 kPa, what is the specific
which is in contact with air if the pressure gravity of the liquid?
within the droplet is 561 Pa?

19. What is the pressure 12.5 m below the

ocean? Use sp. gr. = 1.03 for salt water.

16. An atomizer forms water droplets 45 um in

diameter. Determine the excess pressure
within these droplets using o = 0.0712 N/
m.

20. If the pressure at a point in the ocean is 60

kPa, what is the pressure 27 meters below
this point?
21. Find the absolute pressure in ka at a depth
of 10 m below the free surface of oil of sp.
gr. 0.75 if the barometric reading is 752
mmHg.

24. Convert 760 mm of mercury to (a) oil of sp.

gr. 0.82 and (0) water

22. In the figure shown, if the atmospheric

pressure is 101.03 kPa and the absolute
pressure at the bottom of the tank is 231.3
kPa, what is the specific gravity of olive
25. A barometer reads 760 mmHg and a
oil?
pressure gage attached to a tank reads
850 cm of oil (sp. gr. 0.80). What is the
absolute pressure in the tank in kPa?

26. Piston A has a cross-section of 1,200 sq.

cm while that of piston B is 950 sq. cm.
with the latter higher than piston A by 1.75
m. If the intervening passages are filled
with oil whose specific gravity is 0.8, what
23. Assuming specific weight of air to be is the difference in pressure between A
constant at 12 N/m3?, what is the and B.
approximate height of Mount Banahaw if a
mercury barometer at the base of the
mountain reads 654 mm and at the same
instant, another barometer at the top of the
mountain reads 480 mm.
27. For the tank shown in the Figure, h1 = 3m
and h3 = 4 m. Determine the value of h2.

30. A closed cylindrical tank contains 2 m of

water, 3 m of oil (s = 0.82) and the air
above oil has a pressure of 30 kPa. If an
open mercury manometer at the bottom
of the tank has 1 m of water, determine
the deflection of mercury.

28. For the manometer shown, determine the

pressure at the center of the pipe.

31. An open manometer attached to a pipe

shows a deflection of 150 mmHg with the
29. Determine the value of y in the lower level of mercury 450 mm below the
manometer shown in the Figure. centerline of the pipe carrying water.
Calculate the pressure at the centerline of
the pipe.
32. In the figure shown, determine the height
h of water and the gage reading at A when
the absolute pressure at B is 290 kPa.

34. A vertical rectangular gate 1.5 m wide and

3 m high is submerged in water with its top
edge 2 m below the water surface. Find the
total pressure acting on one side of the
gate and its location from the bottom.

33. Assuming normal barometric pressure,

how deep in the ocean is the point where
an air bubble, upon reaching the surface,
has six times its volume than it had at the
bottom?
35. A vertical circular gate is submerged in a 37. Find the magnitude and location of the
liquid so that its top edge is flushed with force exerted by water on one side of the
the liquid surface. Find the ratio of the vertical annular disk shown.
total force acting on the lower half to that
acting on the upper half.

36. An inclined, circular gate with water on

one side is shown in the figure. Determine 38. In the figure shown, find the width b of the
the total resultant force acting on the gate. concrete dam necessary to prevent the
dam from sliding. The specific gravity of
concrete is 2.4 and the coefficient of
friction between the base of the dam and
the foundation is 0.4. Use 1.5 as the factor
of safety against sliding. Is the dam also
safe from overturning?
39. The section of a concrete gravity dam
shown in the figure. The depth of water at
the upstream side is 6 m. Neglect
40. The submerged curve AB is one quarter of
hydrostatic uplift and use unit weight of
a circle of radius 2 m and is located on the
concrete equal to 23.5 kN/ m?. Coefficient
lower corner of a tank as shown. The
of friction between the base of the dam
length of the tank perpendicular to the
and the foundation is 0.6. Determine the
sketch is 4 m. Find the magnitude and
following: (a) factor of safety against
location of the horizontal and vertical
sliding, (b) the 6 m factor of safety against
components of the total force acting on
overturning, and (C) the overturning
AB.
moment acting against the dam in kN-m.
41. Calculate the magnitude of the resultant 43. .A thin-walled hallow sphere 3.5 m in
pressure on a 1-ft-wide strip of a diameter holds helium gas at 1700 kPa.
semicircular taintor gate shown in Figure- Determine the minimum wall thickness of
the sphere if its allowable stress is 60 MPa.

44. A 100-mm-ID steel pipe has a 6 mm wall

thickness. For an allowable tensile stress
of 80 MPa, what maximum pressure can
the pipe withstand?

42. A 300 mm diameter steel pipe 12 mm thick

carries water under a head of 50 m of
water. Determine the stress in the steel.
45. An iceberg having specific gravity of 0.92
is floating on salt water of sp. gr. 1.03. If
the volume of ice above the water surface
is 1000 cu. m., what is the total volume of
the ice?

47. If a 5-kg steel plate is attached to one end

of a 0.1 m x 0.3 m x 1.20 m wooden pole,
what is the length of the pole above water?
Use s.g. of wood of 0.50. Neglect buoyant
force on steel

46. A block of wood 0.20 m thick is floating in

sea water. The specific gravity of wood is
0.65 while that of seawater is 1.03. Find the
minimum area of a block which will
support a man weighing 80 kg.
48. A plastic cube of side L and sp. gr. 0.82 is
placed vertically in water. Is the cube
stable?

50. The waterline section of a 1,500-kN barge

is as shown. Its center of gravity is 1.5 m
above the center of buoyancy. Compute
the initial metacentric height against
rolling.

49. A solid wood cylinder of specific gravity

0.6 is 600 mm in diameter and 1200 mm
high. If placed vertically in oil (sp. gr. =
0.85), would it be stable?