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"In a closed room dust generally settles down". Why ?
Important Questions on Mechanical Properties of Fluids
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A barometer is constructed using a liquid (density ). What would be the height of the liquid column, when a mercury barometer reads
(density of mercury )

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In Guericke's experiment to show the effect of atmospheric pressure, two copper hemispheres were tightly fitted to each other to form a hollow sphere and the air from the sphere was pumped out to create vacuum inside. If the radius of each hemisphere is and the atmospheric pressure is , then the minimum force required (when the two hemispheres are pulled apart by the same force) to separate the hemispheres is

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A cylindrical vessel of base radius and height has a narrow neck of height and radius at one end (see figure). The vessel is filled with water (density ) and its neck is filled with immiscible oil (density ). Then the pressure at;

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Two thin circular discs and of radii and are in a liquid at the same depth. is the thrust on and thrust on . Then

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Two spheres and of equal radii have densities and , respectively. The spheres are connected by a massless string and placed in liquids and of densities and and viscosities and , respectively. They float in equilibrium with the sphere in and sphere in and the string being taut (see figure). If sphere alone in has terminal velocity and alone in has terminal velocity , then


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The velocity of water in river is near the surface. If the river is deep, then the shearing stress between the surface layer and the bottom layer is (coefficient of viscosity of water, )

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A piece of copper having a rectangular cross-section of is pulled in tension with force, producing only elastic deformation. Calculate the resulting strain? Shear modulus of elasticity of copper is .

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Describe the effect of nature of liquid and temperature on surface tension?

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Explain with an example how shear stress is cause due to tangential force.

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A uniform solid cylinder of length submerged partially in two immiscible liquids is in equilibrium as shown. If one-third length of the cylinder is submerged in liquid of density


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What do you mean by shear stress?

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Which kind of force is cause of shear stress?

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How shear stress for fluids is different from solids?

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The Young's modulus of a perfectly rigid body is

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The _____ of a fluid is defined as the ratio of the shearing stress between adjacent layers of fluid to the rate of change of velocity perpendicular to the direction of motion.

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In Millikan's experiment, an oil drop of radius remains suspended between the plates which are apart. If the drop has charge of over it, calculate the potential difference between the plates. The density of oil may be taken as .

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Which one of given is not a property of the liquid?

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What are fluids? Mention some of their basic properties.

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Which one of the given option is not the property of the solid?

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Two metal spheres of density are falling through a liquid of density with the same uniform speed. The ratio of their radii is :

