HYDRAULICS plane so that the bottom of the bucket describes the of 24 m.

so that the bottom of the bucket describes the of 24 m. The head loss in the suction pipe is five times
radius of 1 m. How fast should the bucket be rotated its velocity head and the head loss in the discharge pipe
1. Calculate the pressure difference, in Pascals, from so that no water is spilled? Neglect the weight of the is 12 times its velocity head.
the top of a house to the ground if the distance is 10 bucket.
m. A. 25.5 C. 31.5 10. Calculate the discharge in m3/s.
A. 98.1 C. 120 B. 38.5 D. 28.7 A. 0.057 C. 0.039
B. 136 D. 80 B. 0.066 D. 0.048
6. A trapezoidal channel is to be designed to carry a
2. In a bakery, water enters a mixing chamber at the discharge of 150 m3/s and run on a slope of 0.0025 11. Determine the power delivered to the water by the
rate of 150 per liters per sec through Pipe A, while m/m with side slopes 2H/1V. If the channel is to be pump in hp.
cooking oil with specific gravity of 0.80 is forced at 30 designed for maximum hydraulic efficiency, what A. 18.0 C. 12.3
liters per sec through pipe B. Assuming the liquids would be the width in meters? Use n = 0.035 B. 20.8 D. 15.1
are incompressible and from a homogeneous A. 4.85 C. 3.15 12. Determine the power of the jet in kW.
mixture of oil globules in water, evaluate the density B. 2.29 D. 4.07 A. 2.30 C. 1.85
of the mixture in kg/m3 leaving through a pipe of B. 1.50 D. 1.27
diameter 300 mm. The cubic tank shown is half full of water.
A. 712 C. 967
B. 876 D. 1000 7. Find the pressure on the bottom of the tank in kPa.
A. 37.4 C. 17.8
3. A fireman has to put out a fire but is blocked by a fire B. 14.7 D. 22.7
wall. To reach over the wall, he directed the water jet 8. Calculate the force exerted by the fluids on the tank
from the nozzle at an angle of 30 deg to the wall in kN.
horizontal. Evaluate the velocity of the water, in A. 69 C. 83
meters/sec, leaving the nozzle of his hose to reach B. 105 D. 124
over the wall if he stands 30 meters away from the 9. Determine the location of the center of pressure on
wall and the wall is standing 2 m higher than the the wall from the water surface in meters.
nozzle of the hose. Neglect friction in the jet. A. 0.315 C. 1.815
A. 16.8 C. 18.2 B. 1.185 D. 0.500
B. 20.6 D. 19.6

4. The crest gate shown consists of a cylindrical surface An irrigation canal with trapezoidal cross sections has
of which AB is the base, supported by a structural the following dimensions: Bottom width = 2.00 m, depth
frame hinged at C. The length of the gate of water = 0.90 m, side slope = 1.5 horizontal to 1
perpendicular to the paper is 10 m. Compute the vertical, slope of the canal bed = 0.001, coefficient of
vertical force components of the total pressure AB, in roughness = 0.025. The canal will serve clay-loam
kN? Riceland for which the duty of water per hectare is 3.0
A. 205 C. 225 liters/sec. Using Manning’s formula:
B. 198 D. 176
13. Determine the hydraulic radius of the canal, in
meter(s)
A. 0.432 C. 0.501
B. 0.242 D. 0.575

14. Velocity of the water in m/sec.

A. 0.308 C. 0.652
B. 0.479 D. 0.874

15. Number of hectares served by the irrigation canal.

A. 897 C. 978
B. 879 D. 789
5. A cylindrical bucket 200 mm in diameter and 300 mm In a firefighting system, a pipeline with a pump leads to
high is two-thirds full of water. It is swung in a vertical 75-mm Ø nozzle as shown. The pump develops a head