IB A10.2 Fluid Dynamics
Get the Formative Assessment: FA10.2.docx
Get the Practice Problems: Worksheet-10.2-FluidDynamics.docx
The Formative Assessment Solved:
The FA 10.2
1a. Water flows at 0.140 m/s down a pipe with an inner diameter of 1.27 cm. If the pipe widens to an inner diameter of 5.08 cm, what is its velocity? (0.00875 m/s )
1b. Water flows at 1.20 m/s down a 3.20 cm diameter hose. What time will it take to fill a cylindrical tank that is 6.10 m in diameter to a depth of 180. cm?
(54,506 s - 15.1 hours)
2. How fast does air leak out of a small hole in a tire that is at 32.0 psi gauge? Ignore viscosity, and use 1.29 kgm-3 as the density of air.
(585 m/s)
2b. Water issues from hole in the side of a water tank at 18.0 m/s. What is the height of the water in the tank above the hole? (ρ = 1000. kgm-3) Assume atmospheric pressure above the water in the tank and at the hole.
(16.5 m)
2c. The air (ρ = 1.29 kgm-3) is traveling at 63.0 m/s over the top of a wing, and 61.0 m/s over the bottom of a wing. What is the pressure difference from one side to the other?
(160. Pa)
3. Water (ρ = 1000. kgm-3) is moving at 2.35 m/s down a pipe with an inner diameter of 3.40 cm and is at a pressure of 9830 Pa at a height of 1.17 m. It changes elevation and the pipe narrows to 2.95 cm inner diameter and the pressure changes to 12,400 Pa. What is the new elevation? (Assume laminar flow. haha)
(0.693 m )
4. A tiny drop of water (ρ = 1000. kgm-3) has a terminal velocity of 0.00315 m/s through air with a viscosity of 1.81x10-5 Pa s. What is its radius? (Ignore the buoyant force of the air)
(5.11x10-6 m or 5.11 µm)
- (it's 5.12 µm if you take into account the buoyancy of air)
4b. A tiny grain of bapepper (ρ = 2130 kgm-3) is 1.20 microns in diameter. What speed does it settle in water?
(ρ = 1000. kgm-3, η = 1.002x10-3 Pa s)
(Don't ignore the buoyant force of water) (8.85x10-7 m/s)
5. What is the maximum speed water can move down a 5.08 cm diameter pipe if it is to have a Re_r (what our equation calculates) that is less than 1000? (use ρ = 1000. kgm-3, η = 1.10x10-3 Pa s)
(0.0433 m/s )
Worksheet 10.2
More Practice Problems:
Worksheet 10.2: Fluid Mechanics - Dynamics (Links at end are video solutions)
Volume flow rate. (Av = ΔV/t) (memorize volumes of cylinders, spheres, and rectangular solids)
1. Water flows at 0.854 m/s down a 1.59 cm diameter hose. What time will it take to fill a circular kiddie pool that is 1.75 m in diameter to a depth of 37.0 cm? (5250 s) (Video #1)
2. An HVAC duct that is 1.02 m in diameter supplies air to a 10.0 m x 4.20 m x 21.0 m room at a rate of 3.50 ACH. What is the air speed in the duct? (3.50 ACH means it replaces the air 3.50 times per hour, so it does it once in (3600 s)/3.5 seconds) (1.05 m/s) Video Solution: HTPIB10D#2
3. A pump delivers 180. liters per minute. What speed does the water travel through its 4.15 cm diameter outlet pipe? What time would it take for the pump to fill a rectangular tank that is 2.1 m x 3.3 m x 5.4 m? (2.22 m/s, 12,500 s) (Video #3)
4. A classroom is 32.0 feet by 58.5 feet and 8.10 feet high. If air flows 8.65 f/s down a 1.50 foot x 1.00 foot air duct, what time in minutes does it take to replace the air in the room? (19.5 minutes) (Video #4)
5. A pipe bursts in a classroom that is 12.0 m x 35.0 m in floor area. If it is a 5.08 cm diameter pipe, and the water is going 20.3 m/s, what depth will the water be in a hour if it does not leak? (35.3 cm) Video Solution: HTPIB10D#5
Continuity (Av = Av)
6. A 0.75 inch pipe with water going 4.5 inches per second narrows to 0.50 inches inner diameter. What is the velocity in the narrow part? (10. inches/sec) (Video #6)
7. Air flows at 0.450 m/s down a duct that is 24.0 cm x 62.0 cm. If it widens to 35.0 x 62.0 cm, what is the air velocity there? (0.309 m/s) (Video #7)
8. A circular 2.50 cm diameter pipe has a flow velocity of 56.0 cm/s. What is the diameter of the pipe if the flow velocity slows to 13.0 cm/s? (5.19 cm) Video Solution: HTPIB10D#8
9. A fire hose sprays water at 34.0 m/s out of a nozzle that is 2.50 cm in diameter. What is the diameter of the supply line if the velocity is 3.68 m/s (7.60 cm) (Video #9)
10. A river with a strangely rectangular channel is 20.0 m wide. At a spot where it is 6.30 m deep, the water moves at a stately 0.0850 m/s. Later there is a rapids where the water moves at 3.20 m/s. How deep is it there on the average? (Assume the channel is more or less rectangular in cross section) (0.167 m) (Video #10)
Bernoulli - 2 or 3 terms: (P + ρgh + ½ρv2 = P + ρgh + ½ρv2)
1.00 atm = 1.013x105 Pa = 101.3 kPa = 760. Torr = 14.7 psi, ρwater = 1000. kgm-3, ρair = 1.29 kgm-3
11. Water issues from hole in the side of a water tank at 12.0 m/s. What is the height of the water in the tank above the hole? (ρ = 1000. kgm-3) Assume atmospheric pressure above the water in the tank and at the hole. (7.34 m) Video Solution: HTPIB10D#11
12. Air (ρ = 1.29 kgm-3) streams at 6.70 m/s through a hole in a wall. What is the pressure difference from one side to the other? (29.0 Pa) Video Solution: HTPIB10D#12
13. The air is traveling at 45.0 m/s over the top of a wing, and 43.0 m/s over the bottom of a wing. What is the pressure difference from one side to the other? (114 Pa) Video Solution: HTPIB10D#13
14. Water is at 1.035x105 Pa in a level pipe where the velocity is 2.40 m/s. If the pressure drops to 1.024x105 Pa, what is the velocity? (2.82 m/s) (Video #14)
15. Water moves at 1.70 m/s down a level pipe at a pressure of 1.015x105 Pa. What is the pressure if the water speeds up to 4.92 m/s? (9.08x104 Pa) (Video #15)
Bernoulli - complex
16. Water flows at 4.50 m/s down a 2.10 cm diameter pipe at a pressure of 9.92x104 Pa in the crawlspace. When the pipe is 1.20 m higher than this the pressure is 9.52x104 Pa. What is the velocity of the water in the pipe? What is the pipe diameter? (2.17 m/s, 3.02 cm) (Video #16)
17. Water moves at 3.50 m/s down a 4.80 cm diameter pipe at an elevation of 3.80 m and a pressure of 1.26x105 Pa. At a different elevation the pipe narrows to 3.60 cm in diameter and is at a pressure of 1.36x105 Pa. What is the elevation here? (1.43 m) (Video #17)
18. A 5.40 cm diameter pipe carries water at 3.70 m/s at an elevation of 3.40 m and a pressure of 1.56x105 Pa. At an elevation of 4.60 m the pipe narrows to 4.20 cm in diameter. What is the pressure in this part of the pipe? (1.32x105 Pa) (Video #18)
19. A 3.50 cm diameter pipe carries water at 4.10 m/s at an elevation of 6.30 m and a pressure of 1.24x105 Pa. The pipe widens out at an elevation of 5.10 m where the pressure is 1.43x105 Pa. What is the velocity here and the diameter of the pipe? (1.53 m/s and 5.72 cm) Video Solution: HTPIB10D#19
20. Water moves at 4.90 m/s down a 4.70 cm diameter pipe at an elevation of 3.80 m and a pressure of 1.21x105 Pa. At a different elevation the pipe widens to 5.90 cm in diameter and is at a pressure of 1.37x105 Pa. What is the elevation here? (2.90 m) (Video #20)
Stokes law: FD = 6pηrv, at terminal velocity = mg = ρVg.
(Ignore the buoyant force of air, but not the buoyant force of water.)
1 micron = 1x10-6 m = 1 µm
Water: ρ = 1000. kgm-3, η = 1.002x10-3 Pa s. Air: ρ = 1.29 kgm-3, η = 1.81x10-5 Pa s at 20 oC
21. A droplet of water is 6.12 µm in diameter. What is its mass? What is its weight? What speed must it fall through air so that its Stokes drag is equal to its weight? (This is its terminal velocity) (1.20x10-13 kg, 1.18x10-12 N, 0.00113 m/s) (Video #21)
22. A droplet of mist falls through air with a terminal velocity of 0.00156 m/s. What is its radius? (Ignore the buoyant force of the air) (3.60 μm) (Video #22)
23. A tiny grain of basalt (ρ = 2920 kgm-3) is 2.20 microns in diameter. What speed does it settle in water? (Don't ignore the buoyant force of water) (5.05x10-6 m/s) Video Solution: HTPIB10D23
24. A tiny grain of basalt (ρ = 2920 kgm-3) takes 27.0 minutes to settle from the top of a 8.50 cm tall test tube full of water to the bottom. What is its speed? What is its radius? What time would it take to settle in a 5.40 cm radius centrifuge spinning at 1200 RPM? (5.25x10-5 m/s, 3.54x10-6 m, 18.6 s) Video Solution: HTPIB10D#24
25. A 3.60 micron diameter particle falls through air with a terminal velocity of 0.00130 m/s. What is its density? (3330 kgm-3) (Video #25)
Reynolds number Re_r = vrρ/η
26. Syrup with a viscosity of 1.20 Pa s and a density of 1080 kgm-3 needs to have turbulent flow down a pipe where it is heated. What speed must it go down a pipe that is 68.0 cm in diameter to ensure that it has a Re_r of 1200? (3.92 m/s) (Video #26)
27. What is the Re_r of water flowing at 0.130 m/s down a tube that is 8.01 mm in diameter? (520.) (Video #27)
28. What is the maximum speed air can flow down a 24.0 cm diameter duct to have a Re_r of 850? (9.94 cm/s) (Video #28)
29. What is the Re_r of air flowing at 0.935 m/s down a duct with a diameter of 1.20 m? (4.00x104) (Video #29)
30. What maximum diameter pipe can water flow down at 0.890 m/s to have a Re_r of 950? (2.14 mm) Video Solution: HTPIB10D#30