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Fluid Mechanics Buoyancy Problems

1. A wooden spherical ball with a diameter of 300mm is dropped from a height of 4.3m into a pool of unknown depth. The ball barely touched the bottom, determining the depth to be 4.3m. 2. A block of wood requires 40N of force to be immersed in water and 100N in glycerine. Using this information and the specific gravities of wood, water, and glycerine, the relative density of wood is calculated to be 0.5. 3. A 5kg steel plate is attached to one end of a 1.2m wooden pole. Given the specific gravities of wood and steel, the length of pole above the water is determined.

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Fluid Mechanics Buoyancy Problems

1. A wooden spherical ball with a diameter of 300mm is dropped from a height of 4.3m into a pool of unknown depth. The ball barely touched the bottom, determining the depth to be 4.3m. 2. A block of wood requires 40N of force to be immersed in water and 100N in glycerine. Using this information and the specific gravities of wood, water, and glycerine, the relative density of wood is calculated to be 0.5. 3. A 5kg steel plate is attached to one end of a 1.2m wooden pole. Given the specific gravities of wood and steel, the length of pole above the water is determined.

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SAMPLE PROBLEMS:

1. A wooden spherical ball with a specific gravity of 0.42


and a diameter of 300mm is dropped from a height of
4.3m above the surface of water in a pool of unknown
depth. This ball barely touched the bottom of the pool
before it began to float. Determine the depth of the
pool.

2. A block of wood requires a force of 40 N


to keep it immersed in water and a force
of 100 N to keep it immersed in glycerine
(sp. Gr. = 1.3), what would be the relative
density of wood?

3. If a 5 kg steel plate is attached to one end of a 0.1 m


x 0.3m x 1.2m wooden pole, what is the length of
pole above water? Consider specific gravities of
0wood and steel to be 0.5 and 7.85 respectively

4. An open cylindrical tank 350 mm in diameter and 1.8


m high is inserted with its open end down into a
body of water. For stabilization, a 1,300 N block of
concrete is tied at the bottom having a specific
gravity of 2.4. To what depth will the open end be
submerged in water?

5. A composite cubical block having an edge equal to


Sg = 0.90 3m has its upper half of sp. gravity = 0.80
and its lower half of sp. gravity 1.4. It is resting on
two layers fluid with an upper sp. gravity of
Sg = 0.0
0.90 and a lower sp. gravity of 1.2. Find the
height of the top of the cube above the interface
1.5m of theSg = 1.40
two layer fluid.

Sg = 1.20

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