Fluid Mechanics Questions and Answers – Fluid Pressure at a Point and Pascal’s Law

This set of Fluid Mechanics Interview Questions and Answers for Experienced people focuses on “Fluid Pressure at a Point & Pascal’s Law”.

1. A Hydraulic press has a ram of 30 cm diameter and a plunger of of 2 cm diameter. It is used for lifting a weight of 35 kN. Find the force required at the plunger.
a) 233.3 kN
b) 311.1 kN
c) 466.6 kN
d) 155.5 kN
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2. The pressure at a point in the fluid is 4.9 N/cm2. Find height when the fluid under consideration is in oil of specific gravity of 0.85.
a) 5.83 m
b) 11.66 m
c) 17.49 m
d) 8.74 m
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3. An open tank contains water upto a depth of 350 cm and above it an oil of specific gravity 0.65 for a depth of 2.5 m. Find the pressure intensity at the extreme bottom of the tank.
a) 5.027 N/cm²
b) 10.05 N/cm²
c) 2.51 N/cm²
d) None of the mentioned
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4. The diameters of a small piston and a large piston of a hydraulic jack are 45 mm and 100 mm respectively.Force of 0.09 kN applied on smaller in size piston. Find load lifted by piston if smaller in size piston is 40 cm above the large piston. The density of fluid is 850 kg/m3
a) 60 N/cm²
b) 12 N/cm²
c) 30 N/cm²
d) None of the mentioned
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5. If fluid is at rest in a container of a narrow mouth at a certain column height and same fluid is at rest at same column height in a container having broad mouth, will the pressure be different at certain depth from fluid surface.
a) Pressure will be same for both.
b) Pressure will be more for narrower mouth
c) Pressure will be less for narrower mouth
d) None of the mentioned
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6. We can draw Mohr’s circle for a fluid at rest.
a) True
b) false
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7. Pressure intensity or force due to pressure gradient for fluid at rest is considered as which kind of force?
a) Surface force
b) Body force
c) Force due to motion
d) None of the mentioned
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8. Calculate the hydrostatic pressure for water moving with constant velocity at a depth of 5 m from the surface.
a) 49 kN/m2
b) 98 kN/m2
c) since fluid is in motion, we cannot analyse
d) None of the mentioned
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9. Pressure distribution for fluid at rest takes into consideration pressure due to viscous force.
a) True
b) False
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10. Barometer uses the principle of fluid at rest or pressure gradient for its pressure calculation.
a) True
b) False
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